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| Security firm salvages tanker hit by Houthi rebels, averting threat of Red Sea oil spill |
| 2025-01-10 |
| [IsraelTimes] An oil tanker that burned for weeks in the Red Sea and threatened a massive oil spill has been “successfully” salvaged, a security firm says. The Sounion had been a disaster in waiting in the waterway, with 1 million barrels of crude oil aboard. It had been struck and later sabotaged with explosives by Yemen’s Iranian-backed Houthi rebels, taking months for salvagers to tow the vessel away, extinguish the fires and offload the remaining crude oil. The Houthis initially attacked the Greek-flagged Sounion tanker on August 21 with small arms fire, projectiles and a drone boat. A French destroyer operating as part of Operation Aspides rescued its crew of 25 Filipinos and Russians, as well as four private security personnel after they abandoned the vessel and took them to nearby Djibouti. The Houthis later released footage showing they planted explosives on board the Sounion and ignited them in a propaganda video, something the Iran-backed group has done before in its campaign. Related: Sounion 09/15/2024 Salvage operation underway for stricken Red Sea tanker hit by Houthis Sounion 09/13/2024 Greece to begin towing oil tanker struck by Houthis near Yemen on August 21 Sounion 09/09/2024 Houthis Claim to Have Destroyed US MQ-9 Reaper Drone |
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| Posted by: badanov 2025-01-10 15:57 |
| #1 'Joint US-Israeli airstrikes' pound Yemen, reports say Israeli jets hit Hodeidah Port and Haziz power station near Sanaa; Arab media reports US, UK forces carried out 12 airstrikes in Yemen’s northwestern Amran province |
| Posted by: Grom the Reflective 2025-01-10 08:29 |