Houthis to step up Red Sea strikes, use 'submarine weapons', leader says

www.reuters.com /world/middle-east/vessel-attacked-by-missiles-southeast-yemens-aden-ukmto-says-2024-02-22/

"Operations in the Red and Arabian Seas, Bab al-Mandab Strait, and the Gulf of Aden are continuing, escalating, and effective," Abdul Malik al-Houthi added in a televised speech. He gave no details of the submarine weapons.

Ships owned by individuals or entities in Israel, the U.S. and U.K. or sailing under their flags are banned from the Red Sea, Gulf of Aden and Arabian Sea, Thursday's notices said.

"The Humanitarian Operations Center was established in Sanaa to coordinate the safe and peaceful passage of ships and vessels that have no connection to Israel," a senior Houthi official told Reuters on Thursday.

No ships have been sunk nor crew killed during the Houthi campaign. However there are concerns about the fate of the UK-registered Rubymar cargo vessel, which was struck on Feb. 18 and its crew evacuated.

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There are a few things you can do right now:

Reduce your consumerism. Reuse and recycle as much as possible.

Boycott all Israeli products.

Buy local, so you don't rely on foreign shipping
- This will help with #2:
  
  https://www.whoprofits.org/
Sounds like we will keep blowing up their ability to attack civilian shipping.
- There's an easy way to end this and it costs nothing in terms of lives and money. Tell Israel to stop.
  
  And why would Israel listen to that?
- The Houthi blockade lifts the second israel stops their Genocide in Gaza,
  
  their official slogan:
  
  God is the Greatest
  Death to America
  Death to Israel
  A Curse Upon the Jews
  Victory to Islam
  
  i have a hunch they'll just be happy to see more dead jews
  
  Not a blockade.
  
  They're going to keep at it as long as they are physically capable
@Linkerbaan just want to say that i admire your perseverance. Explaining, with sources, to some of the same users everyday on different posts, and having to take their shitty insults everytime.

I don't think i could do it, but i appreciate that you do. Because I, and I'm sure many others, have learnt a lot from the information you provide.
- Thanks. It has also forced me to get educated on the subject in order to respond to those people.
  
  I am very glad to see (global) opinion on the matter shifting rapidly. The faster that the opinion shifts the less people will get killed in this Genocide.
  
  If I could make one suggestion please financially support content creators such as GDF, Uncivilized and/or Owen Jones if you have the means to do so.
  
  The israeli propaganda machine is incredibly expensive, yet more fragile than ever. Many independent content creators are absolutely demolishing them, and providing people like me with condensed knowledge.
  
  Will definitely have a look at those content creators. I usually donate locally, but I’ll have a look.
  
  Talking about the Israeli propaganda machine; in South Africa you have the South African Jewish Board of Deputies. An absolutely disgusting openly pro zionist and israeli organisation. They’re super rich so they always try to influence law or policy so that anything pro palestinian isn’t heard and that pro israeli messages must remain loud and clear.
  
  They lobby the national government, but especially the DA led Western Cape government the way that people describe the US lobbies do to the US government.
  
  Some people in Cape Town had the back of their houses facing the main roads and highways. So these residents decided to paint the Palestinian flag on those parts of their houses to show support.
  
  The DA government promptly sent police and public works councellors to force the residents to paint over the flag. Which was absolutely illegal of the government to do because it was private property. But because these people weren’t that well off they couldn’t fight back because law enforcement was there as well.
Good.
Just because two countries are warring, this gives a third country zero moral agency to strike random civilian ships bound in international waters.

Edit:

Currently, the Houthis are doing their best to exterminate LGBT communities within the borders of Yemen:

Amnesty International

I suppose under Article 1 if the cgppgc that gives any nation carte blanche to step in and attack them to stop this, right? ... right?
- Yemen is obliged by international law to do everything in their power to stop Genocide when they see it occurring. And Yemen has concluded that israel is committing Genocide. Thus they are forced to do this.
  
  Article 1
  
  The Contracting Parties confirm that genocide, whether committed in time of peace or in time of war, is a crime under international law which they undertake to prevent and to punish.
  
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  Thus they are forced to do this.
  
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  Which particular international law is Yemen bound to in its role towards preventing genocide? And what the fuck does that have to do with attacking civilian ships?

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