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A cargo ship caught fire in the Red Sea on December 15 after being hit by a projectile launched from Yemen, a United States defense official told the Associated Press.
The news agency identified the ship as the Liberian-flagged Al Jasrah. This was confirmed by the private intelligence firm Ambrey, which also reported the attack.
“The projectile reportedly hit the port side of the vessel and one container fell overboard due to the impact,” Ambrey said. “The projectile caused a ‘fire on deck’ which was broadcast via” radio.
The Al Jasrah is operated by the German-based Hapag Lloyd. Ambrey noted that the shipping company “is known to have offices in the Israeli ports of Ashdod, Haifa and Tel Aviv.”
The attack on the ship was most likely carried out by the Houthis (Ansar Allah), who are a part of the so-called Axis of Resistance that is backed by Iran and opposes Israel. The group has fired several missiles and drones at the southernmost Israeli city of Eilat since the beginning of the Israeli war on the Palestinian Gaza Strip. It has also assaulted a number of Israeli-owned ships and announced a blockade on all ships heading to Israel.
Just day earlier, the Houthis said that they struck the Maersk Gibraltar, a Hong Kong-flagged cargo container vessel, near the strategic Bab el-Mandeb Strait with a suicide drone.
This was however denied by both the ship owner, Danish shipping company Maersk, and the United States Central Command, which said in a statement that the vessel was in fact targeted with a ballistic missile.
The Houthis recent attacks forced ships heading to Israel from Asia to take a route that circles Africa, making the journey three weeks longer and more expensive.In addition, the arrival of commercial ships to the port of Eilat has almost completely stopped.
The U.S. has reportedly warned the Houthis from continuing their attacks and is preparing to announce a special upgraded multinational task force in the Red Sea.
the fun loving houthi brothers hitting the minions of the anglozionazi thugs where it most hurts; the bottom line!
all countrys suporting the illegal entity israhell are a legitime target !! so, the yankee, uk and french war ships are good practis for the anti ship missils. do you have submerged drones?
whole eu, only maybe except hungary, are also all zio arselickers.
the barefoot, goathearding houthis are hitting bunch of zionist-linked ships and the zionist enslaved navies are too afraid to even conduct so called strikes in self defense as they do in syria and iraq. how do these zionist enslaved navies expect to take on iran when they close the strait of hormuz.
jews are well well known seafarers, since ancient times. when yahweh told them: build for me a submarine as you are my subterranian devils, be now my subsea devils to rule the oceans, they did it so well that they travelled to pacific, dived to the bottom and remained there for more than 2000 years.
then they came to a surface near british isles in 15th century. the rest is history. rule brittania!
lol, a good yarn….just like the bible
all trade and commerce with genocidal israel must stop immediately.
but not european football matches apparently.
hisbollah from north, hamas and houthi from south. if now also the traitors of fatah and the unvoted long time “president” abu masen/mahmoud abbas would step in the military actions, zios would be overstreched and brought in serious problems.
from what i hear there are over 70,000 armed palestinian police in the west bank so how come theyre not defending their own people from the zionists
that’s good. hopefully that container is full of your dirty money and gold. but nevertheless i think like 13-14 containers fell.
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