Houthi Rebels’ Attack on Eilat: Latest News and Updates

2024-03-20 01:23:00
Yemen’s Houthi rebels launched a new attack on the Israeli city of Eilat (EFE)

Yemen’s Houthi rebels launched a new round of attacks on “enemy” targets on Tuesday, including Israelis and Americans. Thus, the Shiite group’s military spokesman, Yahya Sarea, confirmed that his missiles had hit the port city of Eilat, in southern Israel.

“Israeli targets in the area of ​​Umm Rashrash” (former name of Eilat) have been “successfully attacked,” begins the message spread on social networks, adding that, in parallel, the maneuver involved an offensive on “the American ship ‘Mado ‘, in the Red Sea,” which involved “an adequate number of naval missiles.” The vessel has the flag of the Marshall Islands and was heading to Singapore, from Saudi Arabia.

In none of the cases were casualties or damages specified.

As Sarea usually does in his statements, he justified his actions under “moral, religious and humanitarian compliance with the Palestinian people”, in the midst of the Tel Aviv offensive on Gaza, in order to eradicate the Hamas terrorists, as well as for “British-American aggression.”

The American ship Mado was also hit by enemy missiles (REUTERS)

“The Yemeni forces, with the help of Allah, continue to fulfill their duty (…) towards the oppressed Palestinian people. Their actions will not stop until the people of the Gaza Strip are liberated,” the letter concludes.

The day before, the Israeli Army reported that a “suspicious aerial target”, known to be from the Red Sea region, fell in an open area near Eilat. The threat was controlled by the Israeli Air Force, so no damage or injuries were reported.

Likewise, on Sunday the British Navy’s Commercial Operations (UKMTO) said it had received a notification from a commercial ship about “an explosion nearby” in the Red Sea, which caused no casualties or damage. This episode derived from a new Houthi offensive on this road route, key for trade.

Precisely, the explosion occurred when the ship was sailing “85 nautical miles east of Aden”, in Yemen, and “was heading to its next port of call,” the agency added.

These repeated actions led, this same Tuesday, to the UN Security Council to issue a condemnation and request an immediate cessation of them, both in the Sea in question and in the Strait of Bab el Mandeb and the Gulf of Aden, recalling to terrorists International Law and the rights that support the exercise of navigation.

The UN Security Council condemned the attacks by Houthi rebels on commercial ships in the Red Sea and demanded their immediate cessation (EFE)

The members expressed their rejection “in the strongest terms” of the attacks that began last October and that have already claimed the lives of three crew members of the MV True Confidence, injured several people and even led to the sinking of the MV Rubymar . They also demanded the immediate release of the officers aboard the MV Galaxy Leader, held captive for more than 100 days.

As a result of the “negative impacts” that these episodes have had on trade, security and the environment, the members recalled in their writing “the importance of improving international and regional cooperation, to counteract threats to peace and security.” in the region, calling for a reduction in tensions in the Red Sea, to preserve the peace process in Yemen” and trying to “avoid further escalation with possible multidimensional consequences.”

(With information from EFE and Europa Press)

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