Confirmed. Houthi rebels Yemensupported by Iran, confirmed and attributed the firing of a missile against a cargo ship in the Red Sea, in addition to an attack with drones heading towards Israel.
Furthermore, the rebels warned that “they can target any ship” with links to Israel, seen sailing off the coast of Yemen. Although, as it became known, their attacks against Israel were mostly they did not reach their targets.
Yemen’s Houthis, strategic allies of Hamas in Gaza
The Houthiswho declare themselves in solidarity with the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamaswhich controls the Gaza Strip and is at war with Israel, indicated in a statement that they carried out “an operation directed against a commercial ship”identified as “MSC United”, having fired its “drones against military targets” in the south of Israeli territory.
These attacks they are the last ones of a series of missile fires and drone launches carried out by the Houthis since the start of the war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza.
The British Armed Forces Maritime Security Agency (Ukmto) indicated that “They had heard explosions and missiles sighted” near the port of Hodeida, on the western coast of Yemen, without any consequences for a ship transiting through the area or for its crew.
Yemen bombings
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Detonations were also reported off the coast of the Egyptian Sinaias indicated by the media in this country, before the Israeli army reported that it intercepted objects in flight over the Red Sea.
According to the US Department of Defense, the Houthis launched since the beginning of the war in Gaza “a hundred attacks with drones and missiles” against a dozen merchant ships.
Israel-Hamas conflict: how the confrontation continues
The Israeli military operation started on October 7after Hamas militiamen and other groups infiltrated from Gaza They murdered 1,200 people in Israelkidnapping others 240 peopleincluding about twenty Argentines.
Israel’s offensive, classified as one of the military campaigns “most devastating of recent history”, already killed 20,915 Palestinianstwo-thirds of them women and children, including 241 people “in the last 24 hours,” according to figures updated today by the Gaza Ministry of Health.
The United States formed a coalitionto which they joined more than twenty countriesto protect navigation in the Red Seathrough which a large part of world trade passes.
Baptized “Prosperity Guardian”the operation searches avoid the attacks that affected navigation through the Red Sea, which caused large maritime trade companies to announce that they stopped browsing through that strategic area.
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