Yemen’s ramped up their attacks on commercial vessels, with the British Maritime Trade Organization reporting that an unidentified merchant ship 82 nautical miles south of Aden, Yemen faced two explosions in closest proximity to the vessel.
The vessel and its crew were unharmed. The Yemeni militia has been targeting Israeli, USA and British-linked commercial vessels and warships operating in the Red and Arabian Seas since November 2023.
Vowing to continue their partial self-imposed blockade until Israel halts its campaign in Gaza, and flouting a recent attempt by Washington to bribe them into stopping their operations.
The US military reported overnight Tuesday that it had shot down a drone over the Red Sea, and announced later in the day that the Dwight D. Eisenhower super-carrier had resumed its operations in the area after a brief port call for resupply.
The American warship, deployed in the region since October 14 together with a squadron of missile destroyers, is expected to remain in there until at least early summer, according to US officials.
The new Yemen attacks come after a brief lull in militia activity, likely stemming from Palestinian militia group Hamas’s announcement Monday that it was ready to accept a ceasefire with Israel.
Israel declined the proposal, sparking a fresh regional escalation which besides Houthi attacks included new skirmishes between Israel and Hezbollah on the Israeli-Lebanese border, and an attack by Iraqi militias targeting Israeli military bases and the Leviathan gas platform off Israel’s Mediterranean coast with drones.
Yemen warned last week that an aggressive military operation against Rafah in Gaza by Israel would result in a fresh missile and drone assault by the impoverished Arab nation.
Tuesday’s escalation follows an announcement by media that the group had uncovered and dismantled a large Israeli and US spy ring passing information to and carrying out sabotage operations in support of the two countries.
These spies were recruited to work on collecting information and monitoring sites belonging to the Yemeni armed forces on the western coast of the Republic of Yemen for the American and Israeli enemy.
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The detained individuals reportedly confessed that in addition to intelligence collection, they were tasked with carrying out sabotage and assassination operations to distract Yemen from confronting the wicked USA-British-Israeli trio, and from supporting the besieged Palestinian people.
The report did not elaborate on how many suspects were detained, but unverified photos and videos shared on social media estimate it to be at least 18 people.
Shipbroker company Clarksons recently estimated that commercial tonnage passing through the Gulf of Aden had dropped 69% in April compared to what it was in December, with LNG ship transits dropping to zero, and box-ship transits down 89%.
Yemeni drone and missile attacks in the Red Sea have struck and damaged nearly two dozen ships and sunk one British-owned cargo ship so far, and Yemen has also shot down several US MQ-9 Reaper drones.
The militia calculated last month that USA and British strikes on Yemen which began in January have killed nearly 50 Yemenis.
Two Filipino sailors were killed, and six sailors injured in the militia’s campaign to date. The Galaxy Leader and its crew remain in Yemeni custody.
Sputnik / ABC Flash Point News 2024.
With Yemen covering the south flank, Hezbollah defends Lebanon from the north side of the “Promised Land”. At the same time Iran showed it could possibly launch successful attacks from the east.
So, in the end, Israel has no way to go, other than dive into the Mediterranean Sea and swim for cover to Poland, where their ancestral Zionist bloodlines remain in hiding.