2024-04-07 15:05:54
Update
07 avril 2024
17:05
This is the third attack in less than 24 hours off the coast of this country. They were claimed by Yemen’s Houthi rebels.
Two ships were targeted off the coast of Yementhe British security company Ambrey announced on Sunday, bringing to three the number of attacks reported off the coast of this country in less than 24 hours.
Yemen’s Houthi rebels said Sunday they had targeted a British ship and two Israeli vessels. Ces attacks intervene in a context of increasing aggressions carried out by these Yemeni rebels. These say act in solidarity with the Palestinians of the Gaza Strip, ravaged by a deadly war between Israel and Palestinian Hamas for six months.
“A ship was targeted…southwest of Mukalla,” a port city in southern Yemen, Ambrey said.
A safe and sound crew
Earlier, the British security company said a “projectile” had fallen into the sea near another ship off the southwestern port city of Aden, calling on nearby boats to “take precautions caution.” “A missile hit the water near” the ship, said the British Maritime Safety Agency (UKMTO), adding that “no damage to the vessel had been reported” and that “the crew declared himself safe and sound.
The attack came hours following two missile attacks once morest another ship at sea southwest of the Yemeni port of Hodeidah.
The first projectile was intercepted by the US-led coalition and the second fell “some distance” from the boatUKMTO said on Saturday.
Since November, the Houthis have carried out dozens of attacks in the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden said to target ships linked to Israel. They expanded their targets to ships associated with the United States and the United Kingdom, following strikes carried out in January by these two countries once morest their positions in Yemen.
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