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Yemen's Houthis claim attack on Israel-bound cargo ship in Red Sea
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Yemen's Houthi group on Thursday claimed they attacked an Israel-bound cargo ship in the Red Sea with a drone.
"The military operation against the Mersik Gebrlater container vessel that was heading to Israel was precise and caused damage to the ship," Houthi military spokesperson Yehya Sarea said in a statement.
"The attack came after the ship's crew refused to respond to the call of our naval forces," he said.
The spokesperson claimed that Houthis had successfully prevented the passage of several other Israel-bound foreign ships during the past 48 hours.
"Our forces will continue to prevent all ships heading to Israeli ports from navigating in the Arab Sea and the Red Sea unless food and medicine aid be allowed to enter into Gaza Strip," said Sarea.
This was the latest in a series of anti-Israel attacks claimed by the Houthis since the Israel-Hamas war broke out on October 7.
On Tuesday, the Houthi said they launched a missile at a Norwegian ship loaded with oil that was heading to Israel in the Red Sea.
On November 19, the Houthi fighters hijacked a commercial ship, Galaxy Leader, in the Red Sea and brought it to the Houthi-held port city of Hodeidah.
Yemen has been mired in a civil war since late 2014 when the Iran-backed Houthi group seized control of several northern provinces and forced the Saudi-backed Yemeni government out of the capital Sanaa.
(Cover: Armed Houthi fighters attend a funeral procession in Sanaa, Yemen, November 24, 2021. /CFP)
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