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  • Houthis announce: We will resume attacks on Israeli ships

    03/11/2025 5:07:27 PM PDT · by Eleutheria5 · 33 replies
    Arutz Sheva ^ | 11/3/25 | Elad Benari
    The Houthi rebels in Yemen announced on Tuesday evening that they will attack any ship that violates the group's ban on Israeli vessels passing through the Red and Arabian seas, the Bab al-Mandab Strait, and the Gulf of Aden, effective immediately. The "ban on the passage of all Israeli ships" will continue "until the crossings to the Gaza Strip are reopened and aid, food, and medicine are allowed in," said the Houthis’ military spokesperson, Yahya Saree. Earlier on Tuesday evening, Al-Arabiya reported that the United States attacked Houthi radar facilities and weapons storage sites in the port of Al-Hudaydah in...
  • The Houthis announced that they hit an American warship

    01/24/2024 1:05:28 PM PST · by rxsid · 111 replies
    X.com ^ | 01.24.2024 | UKR REPORT
    #BREAKING ⚡️Houthis announced that they hit an American warship.— UKR REPORT (@UKR_Report) January 24, 2024
  • Freedom of Navigation Doctrine Challenged height

    07/31/2018 2:21:11 PM PDT · by Sean_Anthony · 3 replies
    Canada Free Press ^ | 07/31/18 | James A. Lyons, Jr. Admiral, USN (ret)
    The de facto threat to shipping through the Bab al-Mandab must not be allowed to stand With all the media focus on President Trump’s recent meeting with Russia’s Vladimir Putin, a major event took place last week in the strategic Bab al-Mandab Strait, which received little notice. The Iranian-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen have acknowledged that they fired a missile supplied by Iran from the vicinity of the port city of Hodeida that hit a Saudi Aramco tanker. In response, even though there was little damage, Saudi Arabia has suspended all its shipping from transiting the Bab al-Mandab Strait.