Dubai, United Arab Emirates (AP) – missile attacks Yemeni Hooty Rebels Officials said they had set up a Dutch-covered cargo ship in the Gulf of Aden, forcing two Mariners to injure and force their crew to abandon the damaged vessel.
It was the most serious attack in the Gulf of Aden, leaving some distance from the Red Sea, where the Iran-backed Houtsis sunk two ships in July.
The rebels did not insist on attacking Minerbagrakt, but threatened to attack the ship as part of the Israeli-Hamas War campaign in the Gaza Strip, particularly as Israel has been aggressively penetrating Gaza City. Meanwhile, it is on the edge of the Middle East and beyond. The United Nations reimposes sanctions against Iran About that nuclear program.
Minervagracht was targeted on September 23 in a failed attack in the Gulf of Aden. It connects East Africa to the Red Sea through the Bab-Elmandev Strait, which separates East Africa from the Arabian Peninsula. On Monday, a missile launch seen by parts of Yemen clearly struck Minerba Glukt.
Spliethoff, the ship’s owner, described the strike as “a major damage to the ship.” Helicopters evacuated the ship’s 19 crew members, including two of which were injured.
European naval forces operating in the area known as Operation Aspides said early Tuesday that Minervagracht was “on fire and drifting” after crew rescue. The ship’s crew has been identified as coming from the Philippines, Russia, Sri Lanka and Ukraine, one person is injuring and stable, the other person is seriously injured and airlifted to Djibouti for medical care.
The French military’s Maritime Information, Cooperation and Awareness Centre has identified Houthis as an attack.
Houthis has waited hours and days to insist on their attacks and has not yet done so.
Rebels launched missile and drone attacks against over 100 ships and Israel The War in Gazathey say they are acting in solidarity with the Palestinians.
However, the group’s past targets had little or no connection to Israel. The Joint Maritime Information Center, which boasts the US Navy, previously said that Minerba Glukt had no “Israel affiliation.”
The Houthi attack expands the area of recent rebel attacks as the last recorded attack was made on commercial vessels in the Gulf of Aden before Minervagracht arrived in August 2024.
Their attacks over the past two years have fallen Shipping in the Red SeaThrough this, about $1 trillion in goods passed each year before the war.
Houthis stopped the attack during a brief ceasefire in the war. They were later targeted for the intense week’s campaign US President Donald Trump ordered air bombing Before he declared, the ceasefire had reached along with the rebels. Houthis sank two ships in Julykilling at least four people on board, others are believed to be held by rebels. They sunk two other people early in the campaign.
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The Associated Press Writer Microphone Coder from The Hague, the Netherlands, contributed to this report.
