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The Houthis (Ansar Allah) in Yemen announced on March 15 that they had attacked an Israeli merchant vessel and a warship of the United States Navy in the Red Sea.
In a statement, the Houthi military spokesman, Brigade General Yahya Sarea, said that the group targeted the Israeli-owned “Pacific 01” vessel with a number of “suitable naval missiles” and launched several suicide drones at a U.S. Navy warship.
Earlier, the United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO), a detachment of the Royal Navy, reported two attacks against vessels in the Red Sea, with one of them resulting in damage. The U.S. Central Command also said that the Houthis fired four anti-ship ballistic missiles at the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden, but didn’t report any losses.
The Houthis have been attacking Israel-affiliated vessels and others owned by the United States and the UK in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden since last November in response to the Israeli war and siege against the Palestinian Gaza Strip.
Now, the group has begun to expand its operations to cover the vessels linked to Israel in the Indian Ocean, as they travel toward the Cape of Good Hope, Brig. Gen. announced in the same statement, noting that the step came upon direction from the group’s leader Abdul-Malik al-Houthi.
The spokesman said that the Houthis have already carried out attacks against three Israeli and U.S. vessels in the Indian Ocean, without providing any details.
In an address aired by the group’s al-Masirah TV on March 14, the leader of the Houthis claimed that his forces have already begun carrying out maritime operations in the Indian Ocean to target ships “connected to Israel.”
Al-Houthi asserted that the group has struck 73 vessels thus far in the Red Sea, Arabian Sea, and Gulf of Aden using missiles and drones, noting that 34 Houthi fighters were killed in strikes carried out by the U.S. and the United Kingdom.
“We are moving to prevent the crossing of ships linked to the Israeli enemy, even those passing through the Indian Ocean and from South Africa toward the Cape of Good Hope,” al-Houthi said, warning, “Our operations this time reached unprecedented wide scope, and three of our operations reached the Indian Ocean.”
The U.S. and the UK carried out hundreds of strikes against Houthi-controlled areas in Yemen in recent months. However, the group’s attacks are increasing and its military capabilities appear to be growing. Recent reports even revealed that the group have successfully test-fired a hypersonic ballistic missiles.
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maybe it’s time to stop playing and get serious, it’s easy to sink american and british warships in the red sea, just do it
breaking news. brigadier general yahya sarea, announced that the yemeni navy targeted the american ship “pinocchio” in the red sea with a number of appropriate naval missiles and hit it accurately. see http://rlu.ru/3rcoi
sink ‘em all!
they should be nominated for the nobel peace prize , they are acting legally and are heros
the blockade on gaza of food and medicine is evil, especially considering how little if any killing hamas actually did on oct 7. i still have yet to see a convincingly real picture of anybody dying on oct 7, but a bunch of media hype of lies and hoax images. an israeli stand-down/false flag so they could go slaughter civilians and steal what little is left of the palestinian land. many of those palestinian’s are probably even from families of former jews. it’s retarded and evil.
.. wack those hooked nose barbarians!!