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| Soddies seize Yemeni Red Sea islands from Houthis | |
| 2015-12-12 | |
| The Saudi-led coalition forces have captured a Yemeni Red Sea archipelago used by Houthis for storing and smuggling weapons into Yemen, the Saudi-led alliance and local fishermen said on Thursday. The coalition said its forces “cleansed Greater Hanish”, the biggest island in the archipelago in the Red Sea’s main shipping lanes, Saudi state television said. The islands, it said, were used by the Houthis to store weapons and smuggle them into Hodeida, Yemen’s main Red Sea port. Fishermen told Reuters by telephone that the islands had been subjected to weeks of heavy shelling by Arab forces before they were seized. The archipelago was the subject of a territorial dispute between Yemen and Eritrea, which seized the archipelago in the 1990s, until a London-based international arbitration court granted Yemen sovereignty in 1998.
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| Posted by:Steve White |