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Yemen’s Houthis (Ansar Allah) seized several strategic islands in the southern Red Sea on September 10 as part of a rapid offensive that also delivered them the key port city of Mocha.
Houthi fighters captured Zuqar Island along with Greater Hanish and Lesser Hanish in the Hanish archipelago after launching missile and rocket strikes from the mainland and landing troops by boat, military sources told the Spanish news agency EFE. An AFP-quoted source confirmed the capture of at least Zuqar, while Reuters reported that Houthi forces had reached the islands following the fall of Mocha.
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A Yemeni government official told Xinhua that government naval troops withdrew from the area and that the Houthis moved in to establish positions.
Qatar-based Al-Araby reported that the Houthis also captured Perim Island, also known as Mayyun. The roughly 13-square-kilometer volcanic island sits at the narrowest point of the Bab al-Mandab Strait, dividing the waterway into two channels between Yemen and the Horn of Africa. Control of Perim would place the group directly astride one of the world’s most important shipping lanes.
Houthi officials described the operations as “defensive” and pledged that international freedom of navigation through the Bab al-Mandab would continue uninterrupted. The group has stated that it is enforcing a “naval blockade” aimed at Saudi Arabia and has conducted recent attacks on Saudi tankers and other vessels linked to the kingdom.
Yemen’s Presidential Leadership Council Chairman Rashad al-Alimi accused Iran of seeking to give the Houthis influence over the Bab al-Mandab and the Red Sea. He said any threat to the strait affects global trade through the Red Sea and Suez Canal and called the restoration of government control over Yemen’s coasts an international interest.
The island gains followed the Houthi seizure of Mocha, roughly 80 kilometers north of Perim, after Saudi-backed government and allied forces withdrew. The developments mark one of the sharpest escalations along Yemen’s western coast in years. It solidifies the Houthis control over commercial shipping through the strategic waterway.
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well that was a little unexpected. the khat chewing sand people have become the ocean people.
and just to prove how completely dogshit the us navy is: we had two aircraft carrier groups in the region and the houthis just landed a naval invasion
one houthi has more courage than ten saudis
more like ten thousand.
trumpy and the shadies are f….d! heheheheh
you bear people (russians) watch and learn from these lion people. 🦁
not a single toyota hilux/land cruiser/prado were harmed while making these videos…
and all the new models are in syria with the hard working towel head ratbags.
saudis are cowards who can’t fight. houthis will get all these weapons and use them against the saudis when they start their offensive in asir and jizan provinces in the future. saudis are in real trouble now.
que tomem asir e jizan já.
all us joo americunts submissively pumped w muslim jizz in our anuz derp incel fascist
que interessante, agora vocês israelenses querem esperma no ânus de vocês hahahahaha
um dos vídeos do canal do irmão nathanael no rumble explica por que os judeus fazem isso, já que faz parte da religião deles.
remember 2012 yemeni ”’election”’ : abdrabbuh mansur hadi was the only candidate. all other candidates were forbidden by saudi arabia and usa. fake election, true civil war…..
democracy is power of democrats. if democrats losing, it’s not democratic and must be bombed until democracy prevail again. look at kiev — no elections needed at all. after the coup in 2014 legitimacy was at zero level, but now it’s below zero, because terms of the highest council (rada) and the green clown expired in 2024, in august and may respectively. shaking hands with epstein’s coalition is enough to restore democracy. western democracy is like a virus.
this all started then. and took momentum just two years later in 2014.
os houthíes se preparem para os bombardeios do paquistão que se aliou e é um cachorro da arábia saudita. país que virou sionista. tomara o irã entre em cena pra defender o yemen dos ataques do paquistão por causa daquele acordo militar entre arábia, paquistão e turquia. morte a esse acordo de defesa que nunca foi contra israel.
vocês viram? o yemen tem ilhas paradisíacas🏝