The Biden administration is expected to soon announce plans to redesignate Iranian-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen as specially designated global terrorists, according to two people familiar with the White House decision and a U.S. official.
The move comes as the Houthis have launched dozens of attacks on commercial vessels in the Red Sea. The group says it has attacked the ships in response to Israel’s military operations in Gaza in the aftermath of Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack on Israel.
The three people familiar with the decision were not authorized to comment and requested anonymity to discuss the matter ahead of the expected formal announcement.
Oh, okay, pulling civilians’ fingernails off and burning their genitals and murdering LGBT people aren’t deranged policies or war crimes in your eyes. Good to know.
I mean they’re definitely atrocities, but don’t war crimes need war?
Targeting civilians is a war crime, torture is a war crime, and Yemen is in a state of civil war.
Oh look, the neolibs suddenly care about Yemenis when they can use them to justify their colonizer bloodlust.
“Houthis attacking random civilian ships is okay because war crimes”
“So the reverse, attacking Houthis at random, for war crimes, is okay too, right?”
“THE COLONIZER’S BLOODLUST SHOWS ITSELF”
Sorry for using someone’s logic against them to show it’s morally and intellectually bankrupt, I know that’s frightening to people with a sophomoric view of the world.