For more than 48 hours, two Greek interests in the Red Sea were received coordinated attacks by Houthi fighters with drones, rockets and rockets, in one of the most serious blows since the start of the Houthi campaign against international navigation. No US or Allied warship was in the area to help.

Officer of Cosmoship Management, which manages the ship Eternity cone of the boats that were attacked, said he was desperately trying to seek help from the British Navy and the European Maritime Mission during the attack, but told him that there were no ships available in the area, the Wall Street Journal reports.

This is the first successful attack by Houthi on a merchant ship since November and one of the most bloody since the Iranian -backed Yeri guerrilla team began a campaign to disrupt navigation in the crucial world trade channel, citing the war.

The attacks, which took place with many small boats supported by heavier weapons, were reported two months after the ceasefire agreement achieved by US President Donald Trump with the Houthi and who, as he had stated, would stop their attacks.

As long as the Houthi are not targeted by US ships, the United States believes that the ceasefire is still in force, a senior US official said. A spokesman for the Ministry of Defense said the United States has not changed their “arrangement of their forces” in response to attacks.

Christopher Long, a former British Navy officer in the Middle East and current head of information from Neptune P2P Security Society, said the absence of a military presence near the Houthi strongholds in the South Red Sea makes its merchant ships fully exposed.

“As things are today, you are on your own,” he warned.

The international effort to protect sea routes has weakened in recent months, as fewer and fewer seamen has the potential to deal with Houthi’s increasingly sophisticated arsenal, the senior US official said.

The same official, a spokesman for the British Navy and the mission of the European Union’s Aspides in the Middle East confirmed that their seafarers had no ships in the area at the time of the attack.

Houthi began their attack on Sunday afternoon, as the Magic Seas ship, with two Liberian flag, two football stadiums and loaded with steel, sailed near Yemen to Turkey.

According to Joint Maritime Information Center, his security officer Magic Seas He emitted an urgent notice that the ship was being attacked.

Four or five small boats surrounded the huge ship and exchanged shots with its security team. One of the attackers fired rockets to the ship’s bridge.

Within 90 minutes, the attack had intensified, with seven or eight high speeds involved in the business. A rocket hit the ship’s cargo space, while four unmanned vessels were added to the attack.

The security team opened fire and plunged two of them, but the other two managed to hit the ship, causing serious damage. The engine room began to flood and the crew was forced to leave the boat.

Houthi fighters boarded the Magic Seas, exploded around the ship’s hull and sank it, according to a video released by the organization itself.

Mahi al-Masat, head of the Houthi Political Council, said the organization would continue to attack Israeli ships until the Gaza war ended and restrictions on humanitarian aid.

The Magic Seas and Eternity C ships were Greek -owned and brought a Liberian flag. The Magic Seas had visited Israel in December 2023, according to Windward and Kpler Maritime Data Analysis. Eternity C had sailed to the Israeli port of Haifa in June, according to Joint Maritime Information Center.

If Houthis now intends to target Israeli -indirect ships, this could affect a significant part of the world trade fleet, said Amy Daniel, head of the Windward Maritime Information Company. “This is further dividing the world maritime system,” he said.

The managers of the two ships – the Allseas Marine for Magic Seas and Cosmoship Management for Eternity C – did not respond to commentary on possible links with Israel, according to the WSJ.

Houthi’s attack on Eternity C started Monday night, less than 5 nautical miles from where the Magic Seas was hit, and evolved in a similar way, according to Joint Maritime Information Center.

Eternity C sailed empty to Saudi Arabia when surrounded by many small boats equipped with anti -tank rocket launchers. During the next two hours, a number of attacks put the ship’s propulsion system off and caused serious damage to the engine room.

In a sound record of the danger signal examined by the Wall Street Journal, the operator sounds shouting: “Mayday, Mayday, Mayday, we are attacked” and seeking immediate help.

The battle continued the next day, with Houthi unleashing additional rocket attacks and drones. A merchant ship tried to help, but was prevented by gunmen who had formed a safety perimeter around the damaged boat, according to a Cosmoship official and a spokesman for the Aspides mission.

The security team exhausted its ammunition and the crew left the ship, which began to sink.

Cosmoship commissioned a private rescue operation on Wednesday morning. In its official announcement, the company says one is considered dead, while four people have not been identified since the boat attack. Ten more people remain missing.

Houthi said they collected several members of the Eternity C crew. The US mission to Yemen said the seafarers were abducted by the Houthi and called for their safe release.

Naval security experts, as well as the United States, said they were the most violent attacks by Houthi since November 2023, when Shiite rebels began targeting merchant ships, in support of Hamas and its war against Israel.

Houthis had plunged two ships before this week’s attacks and had killed three sailors in March 2024, but the deadly and coordinated attacks of the last days stand out for both their tension and strategy.

“This is the biggest blow they have done within 48 hours,” said Eli Safik, head of the British technology company Vanguard Tech. “These are the most successful attacks to date.”

Iran denies that it has equipped Houthi. A spokesman for the Islamic Republic in the United Nations did not respond to a request for commentary.

Houthis still launch ballistic missiles against Israel several times a week, most of which are intercepted.

Mohammed al-Basa, founder of the American Basha Report security company, commented that Houthi’s attacks prove that they “have both the potential and the political will to cause disruption and carefully choose when they will act”.