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The Iran-backed Houthis (Ansar Allah) announced late on June 28 that they had attacked four Israel-linked merchant vessels, including one owned by the United States, in response to the Israeli war on the Palestinian enclave of the Gaza Strip and in response to recent American-British strikes on Yemen.
“Our armed forces carried out several qualitative military operations, including a joint military operation with the Islamic Resistance in Iraq (IRI) targeted the oil tanker Waler in the Mediterranean Sea with several drones while it was on its way to the port of Haifa,” Brigade General Yahya Sarea, the group’s military spokesman, said in a statement.
The spokesman added that the Houthis also “carried out a military operation targeting the American ship Delonix in the Red Sea with several ballistic missiles.” According to him, the operation led to “a direct hit on the ship.”
“We also targeted the ship Johannes Maersk in the Mediterranean Sea with a winged missile, and the operation achieved its goal successfully,” Brig. Gen. Sarea said.
“The operation was carried out simultaneously with the naval forces carrying out another military operation in the Red Sea against the ship Loannis. The ship was targeted by several unmanned boats,” he added.
The IRI, an umbrella of Iran-backed armed factions in Iraq, confirmed that it took part in the attack on the tanker Waler in the Mediterranean Sea, but didn’t release any footage.
As for the Houthis’ attack on the Delonix in the Red Sea, the United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations, a detachment of the Royal Navy, said earlier in the day that the vessel, which was targeted 278 kilometers northwest of the Yemeni port of al-Hodeidah, reported no damage and was heading northward. The vessel was reportedly targeted with five missiles.
Separately, the U.S. Central Command announced that its forces destroyed seven drones and one ground control station vehicle in Houthi-controlled areas of Yemen on June 28.
“It was determined the UAVs [Unmanned Aerial Vehicles] and the ground control station presented an imminent threat to U.S., coalition forces, and merchant vessels in the region,” the command said in a statement. “These actions were taken to protect freedom of navigation and make international waters safer and more secure.”
Yemen’s Al-Masirah TV, which is run by the Houthis, reported four “American-British strikes” on al-Hodeidah airport during the day. The channel didn’t mention any losses, however.
Since last November, the Houthis have attacked dozens of vessels affiliated with Israel or owned by the U.S. and the UK in the Red Sea, the Gulf of Aden, the Arabian Sea, the Indian Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea in response to the Israeli war and siege on Gaza.
In addition, the group launched dozens of drones and missiles at the southernmost Israeli city of Eilat and shot down six American-made combat drones over Yemen and nearby waters.
The U.S. and the UK have carried out hundreds of strikes against Houthi-controlled areas in Yemen since January in an attempt to deter the group and degrade its offensive capabilities, but to no avail.
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to be honest, houthis are doing things that kremlin should do 10 years ago, when they were so busy with sochi games and pleasing western partners, allowing maidan. 1st they allowed maidan, 2nd allowed shelling donetsk, 3rd allowed western assault rifles and manpads, 4th tanks, 5th missiles and drones and very soon they will allow f16 with nukes. but the source of these problems is putin’s passivity, in ukraine it is the same as in syria. this guy is stunningly incompetent.
or maybe he is not incompetent. maybe it was rigged from the beginning. creating grave danger for russia and then playing the role of the “good guy” which was “deceived” by the “treacherous” west. the truth is if putin moved a finger, maidan would never be possible. interestingly he was able to protect lukashenko in belarus so he had resources do the same in ukraine, but he didn’t. why ? because if he prevented massacres in ukraine, he would never play a role of savior of russia.
and more interestingly, the us mic would never got trillion usd contracts including that f35 failure. so maybe, just maybe putin was “elected” in russia right after yeltsin with the silent support of rotschild’s banks who were rooted in “defensive” spending and us politics so much for the last 100 years and he had shadow deals with them. it is more valid theory then official image of putin=good guy deceived by the west. and btw. putin never attacked israel in syrian war. why ?
cause the colonialist have spent the last 50 years robbing everyone blind and investing the loot into military equipment, so , to get on the same page with them, brics+ has to become brics++++. but, as those rats are aware of this, their way became war and there’s not much, russia can do about it, not now. brics is a hidden military alliance.
as long as you’re going down that rabbit hole, one might consider the very same in the west. those same groups who control the west changed their juggernaut from the west to the east. amazing how every last tactic they used was a disaster and all backfired into a russian success story. ukr is being depopulated and labeled nazi, bad, bad guys. so is israel, all strange as the resistance becomes stronger and the west weaker.
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russia is extremely infested by khazarian agents, sayanim. because khazaria empire is today southern russia and ukraine, it is understandable to some extent.
and if folks look at vladimir vladimirovich application for visa where name and nationality of his parents is visible, all folks will understand your here written mystery
bullshit from morons who deliberately distorts putin’s mother’s name to create one more stupid lies. putin is a russian and christian. in all documents he is a russian as his parents with 100% russian names and greek/latin, which is traditional for russia. morons keep talking, but not proving when someone ask for facts. go somewhere and look at something, may be at visa, or may be at another peace of shit — it’s not serious, before the links attached.
nice stuff! amazing the reach those things have. the admirable houthis should aim to put a spaniard in the jew’s wheel by closing down the load and discharge facilities at the haifa refinery making it useless so that the friggin’ jews can’t fill up their tanks and such stuff. whoaaaahhhhh jews, your end is nigh and you won’t be missed!
what about photos/videos of supposedly damaged aircraft carrier? why pentagon don’t publish some to stop all speculations? may be it was damaged just a bit and now the ship is heading to a port with repair abilities to remove all visual traces of hit and then to make some footage.