Since the escalation of Israeli-Palestinian tensions into violent conflict last October, the Red Sea has become a turbulent chessboard of geopolitical conflict. In a bold demonstration of solidarity with Palestine, Yemen’s Houthi militant group has intensified the stakes by targeting vessels with links to Israel or those heading to Israeli ports.
From January 12 to 18, the U.S. and the UK conducted four rounds of strikes against Houthi targets in Yemen, while on January 17 the Houthis claimed a missile attack on a U.S. ship in the Gulf of Aden in support of Palestinian people and in response to “the U.S. and British aggression” against Yemen.
“Our forces will not hesitate to target all sources of threat in the Arabian Sea and the Red Sea within our
