It's something the Biden administration has been warning about since Hamas attacked Israel in October, a widening conflict in the region.

We're not looking for a war, we're not looking to expand this.

The Hutties have a choice to make and they still have time to make the right

choice which is to stop these reckless attacks.

That's the National Security Council's John Kirby speaking to reporters yesterday.

But the violence keeps growing, especially in the Red Sea.

There, with support from Iran, Huthies keep attacking commercial shipping vessels.

The U.S. just designated the Huthies a terrorist organization.

In a video, several armed men are jumping from a helicopter and landing on what they thought was an Israeli cargo ship in the Red Sea.

The men are presumed to be hoofy rebels. Israel says

the seized ship was British owned and Japanese operated. After dozens of

attacks on cargo ships in the Red Sea, American and British forces retaliated last week.

On Thursday and Friday, U.S. and British missiles launched a massive assault

striking dozens of military targets.

Former U.S. Ambassador to Yemen Gerald Firestein says, in his view, these strikes may play into exactly

what the Huthies wanted.

It raises their profile regionally.

It makes them a part of the A team, if you will, in the Iranian axis of resistance.

Then on Monday, Hufi rebels fired a missile at a U.S. owned and operated container ship

as it passed through the Red Sea.

My colleague Jane Arraf spoke with Osama Hamden, a senior Hamas official in Lebanon

after the initial retaliation strikes by the U.S. and UK.

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