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The reason the world doesn't care is white people aren't visibly involved. No horse to back against.
International Pentagon announces new international mission to counter attacks on commercial vessels in Red Sea
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The reason the world doesn't care is white people aren't visibly involved. No horse to back against.
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‘Hell for us’: Why Yemenis fear the US Houthi ‘terrorist’ designation
It could cripple remittances and financial transactions – and destroy an already battered economy without hurting the Houthis directly, say Yemenis.Sanaa, Yemen — Abdu Yahia is no supporter of the Houthis. But the 37-year-old Sanaa resident has been praying for the past month that the armed Yemeni group stay off the United States’ list of designated “terrorist” outfits.
He receives aid from a humanitarian organisation in Sanaa, and fears that tag on the Houthis, who control large parts of Yemen, could stifle the flow of that assistance for a country whose economy has been devastated by a decade of war.
His prayers didn’t work.
On January 17, Washington gave the Houthis a one-month notice to stop their attacks on shipping lanes in the Red Sea, the Arabian Sea, and the Gulf of Aden or face the prospect of being put on the US “terror” list.
The Houthis rejected the ultimatum, insisting that they were not targeting civilians, that they were attacking only ships linked to Israel and that their campaign was aimed at pressuring Israel to stop its devastating war on Gaza, in which nearly 30,000 people have been killed.
So on February 16, the US relisted the Houthis as Specially Designated Global Terrorists (SDGT). The designation enables the US Treasury Department to disrupt financial flows between Yemen and any country in the international financial system, if it believes those funds could help the Houthis.
But it’s not the Houthis who will face the worst of the effects of the designation, said Yahia.
“When the Houthis are called rebels or militants, that is fine. But when they are called a ‘terrorist’ organisation, it is grave. We civilians cannot escape the consequences as long as we live in Houthi-controlled areas,” he said.
Aggravating economic woes
Mohammed Ali, a 25-year-old university graduate in Sanaa, says the US designation of the Houthis will not rob the group of its military power, but it will add to the country’s economic woes and affect people’s livelihoods.Ali studied public relations and hopes to get a job relevant to his major. But he knows his prospects, already weak, have become almost negligible with the US labelling the Houthis a “terror” group. The economy will take a further hit.
“The private sector will be more hesitant to open more investments in Houthi-controlled areas, and international humanitarian organisations may limit their operations and reduce their local staff in Yemen,” he said. “More restrictions on money transfers to Yemen will be introduced. This will hurt Yemenis who depend on financial support from friends or relatives in other countries.”
Since the start of the Yemen war in 2015, inward remittances have become an increasingly central part of the country’s economy: In 2023, they are expected to have amounted to 18 percent of Yemen’s gross domestic product (GDP), among the highest proportions in the world.
While Washington has made some exemptions to mitigate the impact of the Houthi designation as a “terror” group, the aid operations director for the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), Edem Wosornu, said late last week that the Yemeni economy would not be immune from the consequences of the move.
She told the UN Security Council, “We fear there may be an effect on the economy, including commercial imports of essential items on which the people of Yemen depend more than ever.”
Ali, the Sanaa resident, also worries that the restrictions could lead to a rise in prices of imported commodities. “When any military tensions intensify, or the flow of ships to Yemen is disrupted, we feel the pain the moment the price of commodities rises,” Ali said.
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Cargo ship sunk by Houthi strike poses environmental risk, says US military
A fertilizer-laden cargo ship, which sank in the Gulf of Aden after it was damaged by missiles from Yemen's Huthi rebels, poses an environmental risk, the US military warned Saturday.
This picture taken on February 27, 2024 shows the Rubymar cargo ship sinking off the coast of Yemen. © AFP
The Huthis claimed the February 18 attack against the Rubymar, a cargo ship flying a Belizean flag and operated by a Lebanese firm, which transported combustible fertilizers.
The US Central Command (CENTCOM) confirmed late Saturday that the vessel "sank in the Red Sea after being struck" by an anti-ship ballistic missile last month.
"The approximately 21,000 metric tons of ammonium phosphate sulfate fertilizer that the vessel was carrying presents an environmental risk in the Red Sea," CENTCOM said in a statement.
"As the ship sinks it also presents a subsurface impact risk to other ships transiting the busy shipping lanes of the waterway," it added.
Yemen's government also said earlier Saturday that the ship had sunk.
Container shipping through the Red Sea dropped by around one-third in the first week of 2024 compared with the same period last year as Huthi attacks caused shipping companies to avoid the Suez Canal, according to the International Monetary Fund.
The vessel had departed the United Arab Emirates and was bound for the Bulgarian port of Varna.
Its crew abandoned the ship and evacuated to safety after it was hit by two missiles.
Several other organizations have also expressed concern about the environmental threat posed by the tanker.
Fuel oil appeared to be leaking from the vessel in satellite images shared by Maxar Technologies and published by AFP.
The TankerTrackers website said the sinking would "cause an environmental catastrophe in the (Yemeni) territorial waters and in the Red Sea".
Since November, the Huthis have been carrying out attacks on ships linked to Israel in the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden, saying they are acting in solidarity with Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.
Israel has waged a war against Hamas in Gaza since the Palestinian militant group's unprecedented attack on Israel on October 7.
In response to the Huthi attacks, Israel's main ally the United States established a multinational force in December to protect maritime traffic in the strategic waterway.
Since January, Washington and its allies have launched numerous strikes against Huthi targets in Yemen, where the Iran-backed rebels have fought forces loyal to the internationally recognised government since 2014.
https://www.france24.com/en/middle-...ike-poses-environmental-risk-says-us-military
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Houthis insist on entry of aid into Gaza in exchange for salvaging sunken British ship
Houthis insist on entry of aid into Gaza in exchange for salvaging sunken British ship
British ship Rubymar was targeted by Houthi rebels on Feb. 18. - Anadolu Ajansı
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"We'll tow the ship ashore it's fine boys.......
It's very close to the Houthis finding out
And by finding out, sadly I mean that region of Yemen gets carpet bombed into dust. Hopefully it's mainly Houthis there. Unlikely. Because these coward pig terrorists ensure they're covered by actually good people. Fuck them. The Houthis are so close to getting it.
It's very close to the Houthis finding out
And by finding out, sadly I mean that region of Yemen gets carpet bombed into dust. Hopefully it's mainly Houthis there. Unlikely. Because these coward pig terrorists ensure they're covered by actually good people. Fuck them. The Houthis are so close to getting it.
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- I think they reached the find out fase?
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 True Confidence bulk carrier is no longer under the command of its crew because they have abandoned the vessel, UK Maritime Trade Operations says [File: Dario Bonazza/Reuters]
Two seafarers have been killed in a Houthi missile attack on a merchant ship in the Gulf of Aden, British and United States officials said, the first fatalities reported since the Iran-aligned Yemeni group began attacks against shipping in one of the world’s busiest sea lanes over Israel’s war on Gaza.
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.
In a statement on X directly responding to the Houthi claim, the United Kingdom’s embassy wrote, “At least 2 innocent sailors have died. This was the sad but inevitable consequence of the Houthis recklessly firing missiles at international shipping. They must stop.”
“Our deepest condolences are with the families of those that have died and those that were wounded.”
Two US officials, speaking to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity as they didn’t have authorisation to speak publicly, said that the antiship ballistic missile attack killed two of the crew members on board and wounded six others.
Earlier on Wednesday, the United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) agency said the vessel was no longer under the command of the crew and they had abandoned it.
Although there was no immediate claim of responsibility, it typically takes Houthi forces several hours to acknowledge their assaults and Yemen’s Houthis eventually said they had targeted the cargo ship with missiles, causing a fire to break out on board.
“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.
Houthi fighters in Yemen have repeatedly launched drones and missiles against international commercial shipping since mid-November, saying they are acting in solidarity with Palestinians and in opposition to Israel’s war on the Gaza Strip.
The Houthi attacks have disrupted global shipping, forcing firms to reroute to longer and more expensive journeys around Southern Africa.
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.
Despite more than a month and a half of US-led air raids on the Houthis, the group has remained capable of launching significant attacks.
Those attacks have included last month’s attack on a cargo ship carrying fertiliser, the Rubymar, which sank on Saturday after drifting for several days, and the downing of an American drone worth tens of millions of dollars.
A Houthi assault on Tuesday apparently targeted the USS Carney, an Arleigh Burke-class destroyer that has been involved in the US campaign against the rebels.
The attack on the Carney involved bomb-carrying drones and one antitank ballistic missile, the US military’s Central Command said.
The US later launched an air raid destroying three antiship missiles and three bomb-carrying drone boats, Central Command said.
Yahya Saree, a Houthi military spokesperson, acknowledged the attack but said its forces targeted two US warships, without elaborating.
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.
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Houthis insist on entry of aid into Gaza in exchange for salvaging sunken British ship
Houthis insist on entry of aid into Gaza in exchange for salvaging sunken British ship
British ship Rubymar was targeted by Houthi rebels on Feb. 18. - Anadolu Ajansı
lol... Really
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Very sad about the crewmembers deaths. This was going to happen and now I think you're going to see the remaining Carriers willing to transit the area change their mind.
Or we are going to have mutinous crew refusing to go through.
Or we are going to have mutinous crew refusing to go through.
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- How is the security on those ships?
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Ship comes under attack off coast of Yemen as Houthi rebel campaign appears to gain new speed
BY JON GAMBRELL
Updated 5:41 PM BRT, April 25, 2024
JERUSALEM (AP) — A ship traveling in the Gulf of Aden came under attack Thursday, officials said, the latest assault carried out by Yemen’s Houthi rebels over Israel’s ongoing war on Hamas in the Gaza Strip.
The attack comes after the U.S. military said early Thursday an allied warship shot down a Houthi missile targeting a vessel the day before near the same area. The Houthis claimed that Wednesday assault, which comes after a period of relatively few rebel attacks on shipping in the region over Israel’s ongoing war on Hamas in the Gaza Strip.
In Thursday’s attack, a ship was targeted just over 25 kilometers (15 miles) southwest of Aden, the British military’s United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations center said.
The captain “reports a loud bang heard and a splash and smoke seen coming from the sea,” the UKMTO said. “Vessel and all crew are safe.”
The attack was also reported by the private security firm Ambrey.
Houthi military spokesman Brig. Gen. Yahya Saree claimed the attack late Thursday, identifying the ship the rebels tried to target as the MSC Darwin.
European Union forces separately shot down a drone launched from Houthi territory on Thursday, Gen. Robert Brieger said. Separately on Wednesday, the British warship HMS Diamond began the first in the Royal Navy to shoot down a missile since 1991 when it destroyed a Houthi missile targeting merchant ships.
he Houthis have launched more than 50 attacks on shipping, seized one vessel and sank another since November, according to the U.S. Maritime Administration.
Houthi attacks have dropped in recent weeks as the rebels have been targeted by a U.S.-led airstrike campaign in Yemen and shipping through the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden has declined because of the threat. American officials have speculated that the rebels may be running out of weapons as a result of the U.S.-led campaign against them and firing off drones and missiles steadily in the last months.
However, Wednesday’s attack was the first one by rebels in some time. An explosion struck some 130 kilometers (80 miles) southeast of Djibouti in the Gulf of Aden, the UKMTO said.
Early Thursday, the U.S. military’s Central Command said the explosion came from a coalition warship shooting down the missile likely targeting the MV Yorktown, a U.S.-flagged, owned and operated vessel with 18 U.S. and four Greek crew members.
“There were no injuries or damage reported by U.S., coalition or commercial ships,” Central Command said.
Saree claimed that attack but insisted without evidence that the missile hit the Yorktown. Saree also claimed the Houthis targeted another ship in the Indian Ocean, without providing proof. The Houthis have made repeated claims that turned out to not be true during their yearslong war in Yemen.
The Houthis have said they will continue their attacks until Israel ends its war in Gaza, which has killed more than 34,000 Palestinians there. The war began after Hamas-led militants attacked Israel on Oct. 7, killing 1,200 people and taking some 250 others hostage.
Most of the ships targeted by the Houthis have had little or no direct connection to Israel, the U.S. or other nations involved in the war. The rebels have also fired missiles toward Israel, though they have largely fallen short or been intercepted.
https://apnews.com/article/yemen-ho...el-hamas-war-80d6fac495801682a0e74550b6240599
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depends, the norm for the past 10 years has been armed guards onboard while transitting the red sea, but depending on the flag states, some ships were not permitted armed guards.
