...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 Americaâ„¢, Death to Israel, a curse on the JewsThey 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...
military spokesperson Yahya Sarea said on Monday the Iran-aligned group had targeted the "Israeli ship MSC SKY" in the Arabian sea.
Houthi have repeatedly launched drones and missiles against international commercial shipping since mid-November, saying they are acting in solidarity with Paleostinians against Israel's military actions 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
oppressionand
disproportionate response...
Their Red Sea attacks have disrupted global shipping, forcing firms to re-route to longer and more expensive journeys around southern Africa, and stoked fears that the Israel-Hamas
...always the voice of sweet reason...war could spread to destabilise the wider Middle East.
"The naval forces of the 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...
i Armed Forces carried out a targeting operation against an Israeli ship MSC SKY in the Arabian Sea with a number of suitable naval missiles, and the hit was accurate and direct," Sarea said in a televised speech.
| The Times of Israel says it’s a Swiss ship: |
"Initial reports indicate there were no injuries; the ship did not request assistance and continued on its way," Centcom adds in a statement released on Tuesday.
A second missile fired by the Houthis missed the Liberian-flagged ship, owned by Swiss shipping giant MSC, Centcom says.
The container ship was traveling from Singapore, according to marine tracking data, which shows its last location as some 120 kilometers (80 miles) from the port of Aden in Yemen.
The attack, at around 4 a.m. Sanaa time, came about two hours after another missile was fired into the southern Red Sea, the military says.
It adds that the US Navy conducted "self-defense strikes against two anti-ship cruise missiles that presented an imminent threat to merchant vessels and U.S. Navy ships in the region."
In January, MSC said it was not transiting the Red Sea due to danger to its vessels.