Two dead in Houthi speedboat attack on cargo ship in Red Sea | Houthis
In a drone and speed boat attack in the Red Sea, two sailors were killed in a drone and speed boat attack accused by the Houthi rebels of Yemen.
It is a critical waterway for the Red Sea, Oils and commodities crossing the shores of Yemen, but the Houthi militias aligned to Iran have fallen in November 2023 since they started to target ships as they said there was solidarity with the Palestinians in Gaza.
The deaths in Liberia Bayraklı, Greek Ethernity C are the deaths that have been sent in the Red Sea since June last year and brought the number of killed in the attacks on the ships there. Houthis did not demand responsibility for the incident, but the exiled government of Yemen and the European Union said it was the work of the group.
Houthis hours before the attack, another Liberian flag from Southwest Yemen on Sunday claimed that they had sank the cast carrier MV Magic Seas.
Port officials said the crew was rescued by a passing trader ship and came to Djibouti safely on Monday.
The Liberian delegation told the United Nations Maritime Agency for the London session of the International Maritime Organization, while we received a report that the infinity C has been attacked again and caused the death of the two sailors, ”he said.
Since November 2023, Houthis has broken trade by throwing hundreds of drones and missiles on ships in Red Sea and said they have targeted Israeli ships.
Houthis reached a ceasefire in May, but they say they will continue to attack ships related to Israel.
IMO Secretary General Arsenio Dominguez said on Tuesday. “After a few months of residence, the re -starting attacks in the Red Sea constitute a renewed violation of international law and freedom of navigation. Innocent sailors and local population are the main victims of these attacks and the main victims of the pollution they cause.”
Infinity C and Magic Seass were part of the commercial fleets that called for his sister ships to Israeli ports last year.
Ellie Shafik from Vanguard Tech, a UK -based maritime risk management company, said, “HOUTHİ did not show any change in the underlying intention. As long as the conflict in Gaza continues, ships with both perceived and real relations will continue to face high risks.”
At least two crew members were wounded in Eternity C and the operator was listed according to Cosmoship Management.
Eternity C and crew-21 Filipino and a Russian-Deniz drones and Speedboats fired rocket-grain grenades, he said.
The immigrant workers of their countries said on Tuesday, the world’s largest merchant sailors, one of the pools of the Philippino sailors, “high -risk, war -like” areas should use the right to refuse to sail in areas, he said.
According to Bimco, the shipping association Jakob Larsen, the Red Sea Transport has decreased by about 50% from normal levels since its first Houthi attacks in 2023.
The Security Specialist said: “This decrease in traffic continued due to the ongoing unpredictability of the security situation. Therefore, BIMCO does not predict that the latest attacks will change the existing shipping models significantly.”
The attack on Monday, southwest of the Yemen Hodeidah Harbor, south of the sea, has become the second in the trader ships in the region since November 2024, according to an official in AU’s AU’s Aspides Operation, which helped to protect the EU’s Red Deniz Shipping.
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