In a televised assertion early on Sunday, Houthi army spokesperson Yahya Saree detailed the operation.Saree particularly famous the ships belonged to corporations that “violated the ban on coming into the ports of occupied Palestine.”
The Israeli army has not commented on this occasion. Beforehand, they’d denied an analogous declare by the Houthis earlier this month.
Saree added that the group had additionally attacked the Shorthorn Specific within the Mediterranean utilizing drones. This was a part of the Houthis’ ongoing marketing campaign to disrupt transport in key waterways, as an act of solidarity with Palestinians concerned within the Gaza battle.
There was no unbiased affirmation of those assaults.
The Iran-aligned Houthis have been conducting drone and missile strikes in transport lanes since November. These assaults have resulted within the sinking of two vessels, the seizure of one other, and the deaths of at the least three seafarers.