Houthi attack kills two sailors in group’s first fatal strike on shipping
Houthi attack kills two sailors in group’s first fatal strike on shipping
Houthi-claimed missile attack on Greek-owned, Barbados-flagged commercial ship kills two sailors off the coast of Yemen.
The Houthis claimed responsibility for the attack on Wednesday, which set the Greek-owned, Barbados-flagged ship True Confidence ablaze approximately 50 nautical miles (93km) off the coast of Yemen’s port of Aden.
“The targeting operation came after the ship’s crew rejected warning messages from the Yemeni naval forces,” the militia’s military spokesman Yahya Sarea said in a televised speech.
The True Confidence is owned by the Liberian-registered company True Confidence Shipping and operated by the Greece-based Third January Maritime, both firms said in their joint statement. They said the ship had no link to the US.
However, it had previously been owned by Oaktree Capital Management, a Los Angeles-based fund that finances vessels on instalments.
The Houthis “will not stop until the aggression is stopped and the siege on the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip is lifted”, Saree said.
I would like to congratulate the Houthis on becoming the very monster they claim to be fighting. They've indiscriminately killed innocent people who are directly unrelated to the Israeli genocide of Gaza. Just like Israel, who is indiscriminately killing innocent people who are directly unrelated to the Hamas attack on Oct 7. Both groups even gave warnings and act like that's sufficient.
Are we positive that Netanyahu isn't secretly funding or boosting the Houthis?
Maybe we can ask Biden to bomb Yemen some more and Netanyahu to starve people in Gaza harder that sure seems to work.
If it's right for the Houthis to do this to try and stop the Palestinian genocide, that would also make it right for Israel to commit genocide to try and stop Hamas. And it should be clear by now that we both agree Israel is not right to do so whatsoever.
Hamas indiscriminately killing innocent people didn't solve the problem. Israel indiscriminately killing innocent people isn't solving the problem. So why would the Houthis indiscriminately killing people solve the problem?
None of this is an actual solution.
This comment section is entertaining
Fuck the Houthis.
The Houthis “will not stop until the aggression is stopped and the siege on the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip is lifted”, Saree said.
Seems fair to me. All's fair in love and war, after all.
Glad these people are fighting back however they can, although it's sad more innocent lives are being lost because of Israel's genocide.
They're using their sovereign rights to blockade their waters. I don't care about the demonization or the disruption of shipping. They're putting themselves in the sights of the US out of sheer empathy. Which gives me hope.
They are not blockading 'their waters'. They are murdering civilians in international waters. Because of this, we will continue to diminish their ability and destroy the murderers involved in these attacks.
Dont you have some crayons to eat?
They've killed two people out of quite a sizable number of attacks. Deeply unfortunate anyone died, but it speaks to the fact they're trying to avoid civilian casualties. They have the courage to stand up to the US backed genocide of Gaza, because not long ago, they faced similar odds in the US backed, Saudi destruction of Yemen.