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On December 16, the Houthis (Ansar Allah) announced that they had launched a drone attack from Yemen against several targets in Israel’s southernmost city of Eilat.
“We have carried out a military operation on sensitive targets in Eilat using a large batch of drones,” Brigade General Yahya Sari, a spokesman for the Houthi, said in a statement. “We confirm that we will continue to attack Israel until its aggression against our steadfast brothers in the Gaza Strip stops.”
There were no comments yet from Israel on the Houthis’ drone attack. However, Egyptian media reported that Egypt’s air defenses shot down in the morning a suspected drone over the eastern coast of the Sinai Peninsula, about 120 kilometers south of Eilat.
Later on in the day, British Defense Minister Grant Shapps said that a Royal Navy destroyer has brought down a suspected drone in the Red Sea.
“Overnight, HMS Diamond shot down a suspected attack drone which was targeting merchant shipping in the Red Sea. One Sea Viper missile was fired and successfully destroyed the target,” Shapps said in a statement posted on X, formerly Twitter.
The United States Central Command also announced that the Arliegh Burke-class guided missile destroyer USS Carney engaged 14 drones launched as a wave from Houthi-controlled areas of Yemen in the morning.
“The drones were assessed to be one-way attack drones and were shot down with no damage to ships in the area or reported injuries,” the command said in a statement, noting that “Regional Red Sea partners were alerted to the threat.”
The Houthis, who control much of Yemen’s Red Sea coast, 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.
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.
allah’s only excuse is that he does not exist at all.
all of zog’ s horses and all of zog’s men. trying to save schlomo’s ass yet againm.
it is not egypt’s rôle de intercept ansar allah’s missiles destined against israel
$4bn per year from the yanks has influence. egypt also transits gas from israel. sissi is like erdogan for the palestinians; a lot of talk but in the end money is more important.
israel is pushing gazans out of their land towards egyptian land and yet egypt is helping to defend israeli skies?
yes, anon, the reason for that is, that
yes, anon, the reason for this is, that egypt president al-sisi is a jew with marroccan origin. one jew is helping the others. it’s simple as that.
because egypt is lead by its jewish president al-sisi (an marroccan originating jew)
all the armys of the world are commanded by the dollarempire. whoever believes in sovereign nations after this demonstration of the power of the gods of money is a fool.
i make no comment about grant schapps beyond publicly available factual information that he is a former president of bbyo which is a uk and ireland zionist youth organisation according to the data. the british ship used an aster missile which costs about 2 million dollars to shoot down a 20k dollar drone. britain can’t even afford to defend its own coastline never mind the sea lanes to israel. what is going on?
yemen is of course a british former colony and this year is the 60th anniversary of its independence from british colonial rule.
so why doesn’t egypt shoot down a few drones heading to gaza from israel??
eyptians have sat on their asses and done fk all so far.. but fire a missile toward israel, lo and behold they spring into action to save israel’s sorry ass… what a fk’d up world
that is all since pig named anwar al sadat betrayed his faith.
what traitorous stooges the egyptians are.
what a bunch of pigs and cowards these egyptians are. this didn’t surprise me, they payed al sisi fat money. this jerk is no better than erdogan. erdocunt.
so all for you to know this: chris gr, max hermansen, murphy, allah is satan, kill all rats, spider, ernst von kierleis, tnt is one and the same person. he is rabid inhumane zionist, a little coward and prick that have bad dreams that he’s somehow ‘jewish’. his real name is alexander mark gilkes, who is from london, living there and in l.a.