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Brigadier General Yahya Saree, spokesman for the Yemeni Armed Forces said in a statement on Tuesday that the Yemeni military targeted and hit the British oil tanker Cordelia Moon in Red Sea.
A suspected attack Tuesday by Yemen’s Houthi rebels targeted a ship in the Red Sea, likely marking their first assault on commercial shipping in weeks as the Israel-Hamas war threatens to become a regional conflict.
The attack comes two days after the Israeli Air Force launched airstrikes against what it said was Houthi infrastructure in western Yemen, in response to the Iran-backed group firing a surface-to-surface ballistic missile at central Israel on Saturday. The Houthis said the missile was aimed at Ben Gurion Airport, where Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s plane had just landed.
The group had vowed that the “resistance won’t be broken” following an Israeli airstrike in Beirut on Friday that killed the leader of the Hezbollah terror group Hassan Nasrallah and earlier explosions of communications devices used by the group, also attributed to Israel.
The attack Tuesday morning took place some 110 kilometers (70 miles) off the port city of Hodeida in the Red Sea, which has become a battlefield since the Houthis began targeting ships traveling through a waterway that once saw $1 trillion a year of cargo pass through it, saying they were doing so in support of Gaza.
A captain on a ship saw four “splashes” near his vessel, the British military’s United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations center said in a warning Tuesday. That likely would have been missiles or drones launched at the vessel.
TIMES OF ISRAEL