Britain’s maritime safety agency UKMTO and maritime safety specialist Ambrey said an explosion occurred on Thursday near a ship off the coast of Moha.
The Houthi rebels today claimed responsibility for an attack on a “British oil tanker” in the Red Sea, an incident reported on Friday by the British maritime security agency and a company specializing in the same issue, as well as the US State Department.
“The navy of the Yemeni armed forces (as the rebels call themselves) conducted an operation targeting the British oil tanker Pollux in the Red Sea, with a large number of anti-surface missiles,” said the rebels’ spokesman for military affairs, Yahya Shari.
The British Maritime Safety Agency UKMTO and the company specialized in maritime safety issues Ambrey they spoke of an explosion that occurred on Thursday near a ship off the coast of Moja.
“The ship and its crew are safe,” UKMTO said, while Ambrey said there was only minor damage.
The State Department later said a missile fired from Yemen hit a “Panamaan-flagged ship en route to India carrying crude oil.”
Since November, the Iran-backed Houthis have been targeting ships in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden that they say are linked to Israel, in a sign of “solidarity” with Palestinians in the besieged Gaza Strip, where war between the Israeli army and the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas since October 7.
Their attacks have forced many major shipping companies to suspend the passage of their ships through this strategically important area, through which about 12% of world trade passes.
Since January, they have also been attacking British and American ships in retaliation for repeated US-British bombing of their positions. The US and Britain say the strikes are “defensive” and that they are meant to “protect” freedom of navigation.
The Houthis, who were recently blacklisted by Washington again as “terrorist” organizations, claimed responsibility for another attack on a “British ship” in the Gulf of Aden last Thursday.
Yesterday they declared that “they will not hesitate to conduct and expand their military operations to defend Yemen and express (their) solidarity with the Palestinian people”.
The rebels control the capital Sanaa and most of northern Yemen, which has been wracked by civil war since 2014.
Source :Skai
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