The situation is serious in the Red Sea where Houthi militiamen attacked a Greek merchant ship with a maritime drone, forcing the crew to abandon it adrift. In response, the US launched an air raid in Yemen in which seven radars were destroyed.
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More and more is being done the situation in the Red Sea is serious where i Houthi militiamen of Yemen are intensifying missile attacks on passing ships, making the navigation corridor towards the Suez Canal increasingly less safe. The last attack has targeted a Greek ship damaging it heavily and forcing the crew to abandon the freighter. In response to the repeated attacks in the past few hours the US launched an air raid in Yemen where they have been seven radars also destroyed which allowed the rebels to attack ships.
As communicated by the US military Middle East Command (Centcom), i seven radars allowed the Houthis to target ships passing through the Red Sea, targeting them with missiles and drones and endangering commercial navigation. In addition to the radars, which were positioned in the territory controlled by the Houthis in Yemen, in the last 24 hours the US air force also struck two unmanned militia boats and a drone belonging to the Rebels themselves, also used against merchant ships
“It was determined that these systems posed an imminent threat to U.S., coalition forces, and merchant shipping in the region,” Centcom said in a statement. The US raid is only the latest in a series of offensive actions against the Houthis carried out by US and British forces who also formed a international coalition to protect shipping lanes across the Gulf of Aden and the Red Sea. A coercion in which Italy also participates in a defensive manner with its own warships to shoot down drones and missiles.
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In fact, since November the Houthis have begun a massive attack with drones and missiles to hit ships in the Red Sea, in an action defined as supporting the Palestinians in the war in Gaza. The militiamen have already managed to sink a ship, seized another ship and killed three seafarers in several attacks in the area.
The latest attack on Tutor ship, a Liberian-flagged Greek-owned freighter that was hit by a maritime drone while sailing near the Yemeni port of Hodeidah on Wednesday and took on water in the engine room. The ship carrying 80,000 tons of coal, unable to maneuver, was abandoned and is adrift while a seafarer on board is missing.
The Houthis claimed responsibility for the attack as well as that on the Verbena ship, flying the Palauan flag and owned by Ukraine but operated by Poland. The cargo ship suffered two separate missile attacks which caused fires on board and injured at least one sailor, who was then evacuated
