A Houthi official said on Wednesday that the only way to “restore calm” in the Red Sea is through a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip amid reports of another Houthi attack in the waters.
Yemen’s Houthi movement, formally known as Ansar Allah, has been targeting commercial vessels in the Red Sea that they claim are Israeli-linked or bound for Israel in response to the Israeli onslaught in Gaza. They have also fired missiles and drones at Israeli territory.
“There is no way of preventing the escalation except by moving towards a permanent ceasefire in the Gaza Strip,” said Abdul-Malik al-Ajri, a member of Ansar Allah’s political bureau, according to Al Mayadeen.
The US has been considering forming an international naval coalition to patrol the waters off Yemen’s coast, but al-Ajri said even if all the fleets in the world gathered in the Red Sea, it would not “bring security to Israel or Israeli ships, not to any ships heading to [Israel].”
Also on Wednesday, a US military official told Reuters that the US Navy destroyer USS Mason shot down a Houthi drone that was headed in its direction as it was responding to an attack on a commercial vessel, the tanker Ardmore Encounter. The official said the Houthis attacked the tanker with skiffs and fired two missiles that missed.
The Biden administration is threatening to kill a peace plan between Saudi Arabia and the Houthis in response to the attacks in the Red Sea. The US is considering redesignating the Houthis as a “foreign terrorist organization,” which would make the first phase of the Saudi-Houthi deal impossible to implement, The Guardian reported on Tuesday.
Wait!? Is someone considered a “TERRORIST” if they commit “TERRORISM” in an attempt to stop the actual GENOCIDE and ETHNIC CLEANSING of 2.2 Million Palestinians, while everyone else is sitting on their A$$ and doing absolutely nothing? …Definitely? …Okay. That’s fine. You’re probably right. I didn’t know. I was just asking.
It’s confusing at first, but with practice you’ll learn: resistance is terror; genocide is self-defense; civilians are human shields; privilege is victimhood; and all criticism is anti-semitism.
Thank you, Robert. I’ll have that tattooed on my forehead in reverse… After further thought, I will also have my peni$ pierced to make sure I never make that mistake ever again. …Why pierce my peni$? …It’s obvious. Pain is a great reminder and piercing it is better than cutting it off. LOL
It would be easier to just tattoo 1984.
😂 That’s already there.
“The Biden administration is threatening to …” fill in the blank.
Yemen’s Houthi movement has been targeting commercial vessels in the Red Sea that they claim are Israeli-linked or bound for Israel in response to the Israeli onslaught in Gaza.
right then. how did they ever survive the US backed Saudi war against them and remain powerful enough to pull off these latest stunts? or was the Saudi war on Yemen a hoax or maybe are these recent “targeting of commercial vessels in the Red Sea” just a hoax?
almost every day there are fresh claims made by affiliates of uncle sam that just don’t add up.
Given enough time one of these Houthi attack is going to cause real damage. When the counter attack occurs and it will, don’t blame the US for wrecking the peace. Houthis have chosen to get involved in the Gaza war by firing at Israel and related shipping.
The US and Israel have borne the blame for wrecking the peace for decades.
If and when this disaster spins out of control into a regional war, the US and Israel will still be to blame.
I’m sure the anti US and anti Israel crowd will blame the US and Israel if the Yemen peace deal falls apart. In this case it is clear that Houthis are acting foolishly and putting the peace at risk.
No one not utterly brainwashed or deeply and unashamedly dishonest can blame anyone but Israel and the US for the ongoing disaster in the Middle East.
The Houthis are affecting their own blockade against another genocidal proxy of their imperial tormentors. Karma is a warm Kalashnikov.
So you think that this a good idea? What can go wrong? If the Yemen war heats up because of what the Houthis are doing don’t blame the US, Israel and/or claim that killing of Houthis is “genocide”.
The original and continuing bad ideas are Zionist colonialism, ethnic cleansing, apartheid, periodic massacres, war crimes and crimes against humanity of various sorts, and now genocide.
Don’t you fucking dare blame anyone else for responding with violence. Israel and its enablers have foreclosed the other options.
So you agree with Houthis attacking Israel and Hamas attack of Oct 7. And that is your right. Just don’t complain about how violent the counter is. Don’t go crying genocide because civilians are getting killed in the cross fire.
The genocide in Yemen began in 2015. The genocide in Palestine began in 1948. Everything that has transpired past those dates has been a response to these atrocities. Acknowledging this is not complicity, it’s just basic physics. What goes up most come down. Well, now it’s coming down and people like me tried like hell to warn people like you. Maybe someday you’ll listen.
Since the Arab armies started the 1948 war, all the problems in the region are caused by Egypt, Syria and Jordan attack on the new nation of Israel. Good to know.
Donna Volatile, The self called “ peace activist” here disagrees with you. She thinks the Houthis are doing a great job attacking commercial ships. She was cheering them a few days ago here.
These fake antiwar folks here are becoming pro war in front of our very eyes….then give us sh!t for supporting Ukraine.
Cannot reason with that kind of “peaceful “ mindset.
What a bunch of hypocrites.