from thefreeonline on 11th Jan 2024 via HomeWorld News
If the UK needs to stop the Houthi blockade of Israel it need only STOP illegal supporting and arming of the Israeli Genocide in Gaza
The defence secretary tells reporters he will not “allow” the situation in the Red Sea to continue
Britain is poised to start bombing in response to attacks on Israeli linked Red Sea shipping by Yemen’s Houthis, Defence Secretary Grant Shapps warned during a press conference on Wednesday.
The brave and selfless Houthi policy is severely blocking war supplies for the wanton daily massacres of many thousands of Palestinian civilians, and damaging profits of US and UK arms companies.
Speaking hours after a British destroyer shot down a swarm of Houthi drones and missiles over the busy shipping lane, Shapps declared: “This cannot continue and we won’t allow it to continue.”
“We cannot have a situation where a major sea route, a major ability to move goods around the world, is being cut off by terrorists and thugs, and we therefore must act,” he continued.
The UK and US war industry has made tens of billions of dollars in arms sales to Saudi Arabia to kill hundreds of thousands of Yemenis in a failed 8 year war to crush the Houthi (Ansar Allah) resistance to the Saudi invasion and appointed colonial President
YEMENI PROTEST AGAINST ISRAELI GAZA GENOCIDE
“The UK alongside allies have previously made clear that these illegal attacks are completely unacceptable and if continued the Houthis will bear the consequences,” Shapps warned in a statement released alongside the press briefing.
UK becoming terrorist colonial warmonger
The defence secretary insisted that the Houthis were not acting alone. “Iran is guiding what is happening there in the Red Sea, providing them not just with the equipment to carry out those attacks but also often with the eyes and ears to allow those attacks to happen,” he claimed.
British destroyer HMS Diamond shot down seven of the drones in Tuesday night’s attack, according to Shapps, while three US destroyers and F-18/A planes also took down some of the projectiles.
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The Houthi onslaught was described as the most complex yet to be launched since the Yemeni group began targeting the Red Sea’s busy shipping lanes in response to Israel’s deadly bombardment of Gaza.
A spokesman for the Houthi Ansar Allah movement said the attacks would continue “until the siege of Gaza is lifted,” explaining that Tuesday’s strike had targeted “an American ship that was providing support [to Israel]” as a “preliminary response to the treacherous attack on our naval forces by the American enemy.”
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The UN Security Council adopted a resolution on Wednesday, demanding an immediate halt to Houthi attacks on ships in the Red Sea, denouncing the strikes as an impediment to global commerce and freedom of navigation.
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