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| Houthis claim attack on Israeli ships in Gulf of Aden | |
| 2024-05-10 | |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. [Regnum] The armed forces of the Shiite movement Ansar Allah (Houthis) ruling in northern Yemen attacked three Israeli ships in the Gulf of Aden and the Indian Ocean.The military representative of the Houthis, Yahya Saria, announced this on May 9 on the Yemeni TV channel Al Masirah. “The Yemeni Armed Forces carried out an operation involving naval forces, unmanned air forces and missile forces, hitting two Israeli vessels in the Gulf of Aden - MSC DEGO and MSC GINA. The attack was carried out with the help of several ballistic missiles and drones, and the hit was accurate,” Saria said. In addition, according to him, Yemen's missile forces carried out two operations against the MSC Vittoria, first in the Indian Ocean and then in the Arabian Sea.
As Regnum reported earlier, Houthi military spokesman Yahya Saria said that the Ansar Allah movement intends to attack ships associated with Israel or going to its ports everywhere, including in the Mediterranean Sea, if Israel launches an operation in Rafah in the south of the Gaza Strip. The Houthis also intend, in the event of such a development of the situation, to introduce “comprehensive sanctions” against all ships of companies related to supply and entry into Israeli ports, and will also prevent the passage of all ships of these companies through the area under their control, he added. On May 7, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) announced the start of a military operation in Rafah. In addition, the IDF reported taking control of the border crossing on the Gaza Strip border with Egypt. The passage of residents and humanitarian aid through the border checkpoint has been stopped. On the night of May 6-7, it became known that the head of the Politburo of the radical Palestinian movement Hamas, Ismail Haniyeh, said that he was waiting for Israel to respond to the plan proposed by Egypt and Qatar for a ceasefire, withdrawal of troops and lifting the blockade. This was announced by Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian after a conversation with Haniyeh. At the same time, according to local media, Israel continued to strike Rafah, which is a humanitarian corridor. | |
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