[IsraelTimes] Multiple drone attacks originating in Yemen
...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of...
detected overnight; US military MQ-9 drone shot down near Yemen
The French navy has shot down two drones over the Red Sea where Yemen’s Iran's Houthi sock puppets
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...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth . Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The legitimate Yemeni government has accused the them of having ties to the Iranian government. Honest they did. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews They like shooting off... ummm... missiles that they would have us believe they make at home in their basements. On the plus side, they did murder Ali Abdullah Saleh, which was the only way the country was ever going to be rid of him...
rebels have been attacking ships, the defense ministry in Gay Paree said Tuesday.
The navy, which has two frigates deployed in the area, detected "multiple drone attacks originating in Yemen" overnight Monday to Tuesday, before destroying two of the unmanned aircraft, the ministry said.
The attack came a day after the European Union
...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing...
formally launched a naval mission to protect Red Sea shipping from the Iran-backed Houthis, who control much of war-torn Yemen.
The rebels have been harassing the vital shipping lane since November in a campaign they say is in solidarity with Paleostinians in Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response ...
during the Israel-Hamas
 ...the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,...
war, which broke out on October 7 when thousands of Hamas Death Eaters invaded Israel’s south, killing some 1,200 people and taking 253 hostages.
The EU aims to have the mission — called Aspides, Greek for "shield" — up and running in a "few weeks" with at least four vessels, an official said on Friday.
La Belle France has deployed the Alsace, a frigate with air defense capabilities, and the Languedoc, an anti-submarine frigate, in the area.
The Languedoc previously shot down two drones in the Red Sea in self-defense in December, the foreign ministry said.
On Tuesday evening, the Houthis’ military front man Yahya Saree said they had "carried out a military operation using several drones against a number of enemy American warships." He also said that the group had targeted an Israeli cargo ship, the MSC Silver, in the Gulf of Aden adjacent to the Red Sea, with missiles, and that the southern Israeli town of Eilat was targeted with drones.
The Houthis, who control Yemen’s most populous regions, have attacked vessels with commercial ties to the United States, Britannia and Israel, shipping and insurance sources say, leading some companies to take alternative routes, including a two-week detour around southern Africa.
The US is already spearheading its own naval coalition in the area and has conducted retaliatory strikes on Houthi targets in Yemen, as has Britannia.
On Monday evening, the Houthis said they had targeted three vessels in the previous 24 hours, including the British-registered Rubymar, the US-owned Sea Champion and the Navis Fortuna, which they described as "American."
"There is no danger to international or European navigation so long as there are no aggressive operations, and thus, there is no need to militarize the Red Sea," Houthi front man Mohammed Abdul Salam said in a post on X on Tuesday.
"What the world is impatiently waiting for is not the militarization of the Red Sea, but rather an urgent and comprehensive declaration of a ceasefire in Gaza, for humanitarian reasons that are clear to anyone."
Also on Monday, a US military MQ-9 drone was shot down near Yemen by Houthi rebels, according to two US officials. This marks the second time such a shootdown has taken place in recent months during a near-daily tit-for-tat between the group and US forces. In November, another MQ-9 was shot down by the Houthis, and two drones were brought down by the group in 2019. 
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