Not extraordinarily surprising, air raids can be quite ineffective. Besides, my bet is that this is more of a show of force, a “you shoot our ships, we try to be nice and just shoot yours. You keep shooting, now we shoot your home”
Except that the only ships they’ve been attacking until US war ships showed up were ships heading in and out of Israel. I don’t know how that’s any of our business.
Most of the ships they’ve been attacking have nothing to do with Israel. The graphic in this article details all the major attacks that have occurred: https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/security-aviation/2023-12-31/ty-article-magazine/23-attacks-in-2-months-all-red-sea-ships-targeted-by-the-houthis/0000018c-5df7-d6f9-afbc-5dff7a430000
Half the time when they claim it’s Israeli owned, they do so because there’s one Israeli national employed in a senior role in a parent company or something.
The US warships showed up almost immediately after 7 October. The Houthis were not attacking any ships before then. Up until recently, the US warships have only been shooting down drones and missiles attacking trade ships. Most recently the Houthis fired directly on the US warships, so in response the US initiated a strike against them.
Apparently the Houthis still have a significant amount of mobile artillery, which is much harder to target, however the US had also targetted their radar facilities, which should go a long way to hampering their ability to use that artillery. The last missile fired landing harmlessly in the sea points to this.