News - Middle East: The US has targeted a number of individuals and entities for allegedly helping the flow of financial assistance to Yemen after failing to build a coalition against the country and deter it with military threats. 

Yemen has lately come on the US radar for hostile measures after seeing the country's armed forces intercept or target Israeli ships or vessels bound for Israeli ports in the Red Sea in a bid to deter Tel Aviv from its ongoing genocide in Gaza.  
According to a US Treasury statement released on Thursday, the head of the Currency Exchangers Association in Sana’a and three exchange houses in Yemen and Turkey are designated for sanctions. 
Those targeted were responsible for "facilitating the flow of  financial assistance" to Yemen's National Salvation Government and the country's Ansarullah movement, it said.
The sanctions freeze any US assets belonging to the targeted entities and generally prohibit Americans from doing business with them.
Under Secretary of the Treasury for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence Brian E. Nelson accused Ansarullah of conducting dangerous attacks on international shipping and destabilizing the region.
“The United States, along with our allies and partners, will continue to target the key facilitation networks that enable the destabilizing activities" of Ansarullah, it added.
In recent weeks, a series of seaborne strikes attributed to the Yemeni forces have been conducted in solidarity with the Palestinians in the besieged Gaza Strip. Yemen has already warned it will prevent the passage of all ships in the Red Sea bound to the occupied territories.