Houthi rebels yesterday claimed responsibility for the attack on a Liberian-flagged ship in the Red Sea. The ship, as reported by the British Maritime Safety Agency, escaped five missiles, while they also reported that three more ships were targeted, two of them in the Mediterranean. The Shiite movement, an ally of Iran, says its attacks on commercial shipping since November they have been launched in solidarity with the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, in the midst of the war – which in a few days will close nine months – between the Israeli armed forces and the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas. Yahya Sharia, the Houthi spokesman for military affairs, said in a televised statement that rebels had fired ballistic missiles at the Delonix, an oil tanker, and that the vessel had suffered a “direct hit”. However, the British Observatory UKMTO reported earlier yesterday that the particular ship, which was targeted 150 nautical miles northwest of the city of Hodaida, reported that it had not suffered any damage. […]
Source: News Beast
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