The Houthis (Ansar Allah) in Yemen released video footage of the attack on the Liberia-flagged oil tanker Chios Lion in the Red Sea.
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The vessel was attacked with an uncrewed suicide boat two days earlier because its owners violated the Houthis’ blockade on Israel and continued to ship goods to the country.
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The US/UK sponsored Israeli state has so far massacred 38,000 people, mainly children and women in an ongoing Genocide revenge for the Oct 7th breakout and abductions from the Gaza ‘open air prison’. That’s the count of the local health system, but an authoritative survey by LANCET puts the number at up to 200,000 Palestinians now dead.
The Houthis spent 9 years developing their missile technology in underground bunkers while being attacked by Saudi colonists with US backing. Now they are part blocking the Red Sea and Israeli ports “until Israel STOPS THE GAZA SLAUGHTER”, and this despite constant retaliation bombing attacks by the US and proxies.
The latest of hundreds of videos published by Houthis shows a powerful explosion resulting from the ‘uncrewed suicide boat’ detonating into the left side of the oil tanker. It is worth noting that the boat was blurred in the footage, apparently to hide its characteristics and specifications.
“The [Yemeni] armed forces affirm that their operations will continue and will increase … as long as the Zionist aggression on the Gaza Strip is ongoing,” the Houthis warned in the video.
Both the Joint Maritime Information Center, which is overseen by the United States Navy, and the United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations, which is a detachment of the Royal Navy, confirmed that the Chios Lion sustained damage in the attack.
19 July 2024..Houthis break the Israeli Iron Dome defense with a drone attack near US Embassy office in Tel Aviv– Yemen’s Houthi rebels have claimed responsibility for the blast. The group’s spokesperson, Yahya Saree, said the “significant military operation” was conducted with a new drone capable of “bypassing the enemy’s interception systems.”
Since last November, the Houthis have attacked dozens of vessels affiliated with Israel or owned by the U.S. and the UK in the Red Sea, the Gulf of Aden, the Arabian Sea, the Indian Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea in response to the Israeli war and siege on Gaza..
The Houthis also claim to have developed their own hypersonic missiles, and are awaiting the imminent arrival of the aircraft carrier USS Roosevelt to replace the USS Eisenhower which they accused of ‘fleeing’ last month after their attacks.
The higher speed hypersonics, up to X20 Sound Speed, now deployed by Russia and China, make aircraft carriers obsolescent with their ‘unstoppable’ missiles.
In addition, the group launched dozens of drones and missiles at the southernmost Israeli city of Eilat and shot down six American-made combat drones over Yemen and nearby waters.
The U.S. and the UK have carried out hundreds of strikes against Houthi-controlled areas in Yemen since January in an attempt to deter the group and degrade its offensive capabilities, but to no avail.
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