A Houthi leader to Al Jazeera Net: We are prepared and have options to defeat the Americans. Muhammad Ali Al-Houthi says, “The mission of the operations of the Yemeni armed forces is to stop Israeli brutality and the crime of genocide against the people of Gaza.” He added defiantly, "If the United States sends forces to Yemen, it will face more difficult challenges than those it faced in Afghanistan and Vietnam’” The American-British attacks on Hodeidah and other governorates, including the capital, Sanaa, continue.