Yemen’s Houthis claim fresh attacks against ships in Arabian Sea, Red Sea

By Mohammed Sameai

SANAA, Yemen (AA) – Yemen’s Houthi group announced Wednesday that they targeted three ships with missiles and drones in the Red Sea and Arabian Sea.

"The naval forces, the missile forces and the drone air force (belonging to the group) carried out three military operations in the Red Sea and the Arabian Sea,” the group’s military spokesperson Yahya Saree said in a televised speech.

He added that “two operations in the Red Sea targeted two ships. The first was the ‘Roza’ and the other the ‘Vantage Dream,’ which are related to companies that violated the (Houthis’) decision that banned entry of ships to the ports of occupied Palestine (Israel).”

Saree said the ships were targeted "with a number missiles and drones."

He noted that "the third operation targeted the American ship ‘Maersk Seletar’ with a number of drones in the eastern Arabian Sea."

Neither the US nor Israel have commented on the Houthis' statement.

The Houthis have been targeting ships that are Israeli-owned, flagged, operated or heading to Israeli ports in the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden with missiles and drones in solidarity with the Gaza Strip, which has been under a devastating Israeli offensive since Oct. 7.

With the US and UK launching retaliatory airstrikes against Houthi sites inside Yemen, the Houthis declared that they consider all American and British ships military targets.

*Writing by Rania Abu Shamala