{"id":27721,"date":"2024-02-19T11:32:31","date_gmt":"2024-02-19T06:02:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/houthis-suspected-in-attack-on-belize-flagged-ship-in-bab-el-mandeb-strait\/"},"modified":"2024-02-19T11:32:31","modified_gmt":"2024-02-19T06:02:31","slug":"houthis-suspected-in-attack-on-belize-flagged-ship-in-bab-el-mandeb-strait","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/houthis-suspected-in-attack-on-belize-flagged-ship-in-bab-el-mandeb-strait\/","title":{"rendered":"Houthis suspected in attack on Belize-flagged ship in Bab el-Mandeb Strait"},"content":{"rendered":"

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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates \u2014 Yemen\u2019s Houthi rebels are suspected in an attack that damaged a Belize-flagged ship traveling through the Bab el-Mandeb Strait connecting the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden, authorities said early Monday.<\/p>\n

The attack on the ship came as the U.S. military acknowledged conducting new airstrikes targeting the rebels, including one that targeted the first\u00a0Houthi underwater drone\u00a0seen since the rebels\u2019 began launching their attacks on shipping in November.<\/p>\n

The ship targeted in the Houthi attack Sunday reported sustaining damage after \u201can explosion in close proximity to the vessel,\u201d the British military\u2019s United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations center reported. It said that the crew aboard the ship were safe.<\/p>\n

The private security firm Ambrey reported the British-registered, Lebanese-operated cargo ship had been on its way to Bulgaria after leaving Khorfakkan in the United Arab Emirates.<\/p>\n

Ship-tracking data from MarineTraffic.com analyzed by The Associated Press identified the vessel targeted as the Rubymar. Its Beirut-based manager could not be immediately reached for comment.<\/p>\n

Ambrey described the ship as being partially laden with cargo, but it wasn\u2019t immediately clear what it had been carrying. The ship had turned off its Automatic Identification System tracker while in the Persian Gulf early this month.<\/p>\n

The Houthis did not immediately claim the attack, though a military spokesman for the rebels, Brig. Gen. Yahya Saree, said a statement on their activities likely would be released sometime Monday morning.<\/p>\n

Since November, the rebels have repeatedly targeted ships in the Red Sea and surrounding waters over Israel\u2019s war targeting Hamas in the Gaza Strip. They have frequently targeted vessels with tenuous or no clear links to Israel, imperiling shipping in a key route for trade among Asia, the Mideast and Europe. Those vessels have included at least one with cargo for Iran, its main benefactor.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the U.S. military\u2019s Central Command reported it carried out five airstrikes targeting Houthi military equipment. Those strikes targeted mobile anti-ship cruise missiles, an explosive-carrying drone boat and an \u201cunmanned underwater vessel,\u201d Central Command said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is the first observed Houthi employment of a UUV since attacks began in Oct. 23,\u201d Central Command said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n[ad_2]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

[ad_1] DUBAI, United Arab Emirates \u2014 Yemen\u2019s Houthi rebels are suspected in an attack that damaged a Belize-flagged ship traveling through the Bab el-Mandeb Strait connecting the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden, authorities said early Monday. The attack on the ship came as the U.S. military acknowledged conducting new airstrikes targeting the rebels, …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27723,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27721"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27721\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}