Houthi Attack against the cargo ship kills 3 sailors, says the European Naval Force

Dubai, United Arab Emirates – An attack of Yemen hutis rebels In a cargo ship with Liberia flag at the Red Sea he killed three sailors and wounded two others, a naval force of the European Union said Tuesday. The attack on eternity C of Greek property followed a claim of the hutis of having attacked and sunk another ship on Monday in the Red Sea, a maritime vital commercial route.

The twin assaults are the first huti attacks against shipping since November 2024 and could indicate the beginning of a new campaign of the Yemeni rebels backed by Iran that threaten the river route, which had begun to see that more ships passed it in recent weeks.

The bulk carrier of eternity C had directed north to the Suez channel when men in small boats and drones with bombs shot Monday night. The security guards on board also fired their weapons. The Operation of the European Union Aspide and the private security firm Ambrey reported those details.

While the hutis have not claimed the attack, the exiled government of Yemen and the EU’s force blame the rebels for the attack.

The EU force offered victims information, saying that one of the injured crew members lost his leg in the attack. The crew remains stuck on board the ship, which is now drifting in the Red Sea.

The hutis attacked separately the magical seas of carriers of Greek carriers and Greek property separately with drones, missiles, grenades propelled by rockets and fire of small weapons, forcing their crew of 22 to leave the ship. Later, the rebels said the magical seas sank into the Red Sea.

The two attacks, and a round of Israeli air attacks on Monday morning, aimed at infrastructure in the Yemen areas, controlled by the rebels. addressed to the rebels In an important air attack campaign in April.

The attacks arrive at a sensitive moment in the Middle East, like a Possible fire in it Israel-Hamas War It hangs in balance, already measured if it will restart negotiations on its nuclear program after US air attacks aimed at their most sensitive atomic sites during the Israel-Iran War in June.

The hutis began to throw strikes against boats in the Red Sea, including US warships, and against Israel, in what they describe as solidarity with the Palestinians, shortly after Hamas caused The war in Gaza By launching its unprecedented terrorist attack against Israel in October 2023.

Between November 2023 and January 2025, the hutis went to more than 100 merchant ships with missiles and drones, sink two of them and kill four sailors. Its campaign has largely reduced the trade flow through the Red Sea corridor, which generally considers that $ 1 billion of goods move through it annually. Shipping through the Red Sea, although even lower than normal, has increased in recent weeks.

The Hutis stopped until the United States launched a wide assault against the rebels in mid -March. That ended weeks later and the Hutis had not attacked a ship until this weekend, although they continued occasional missile attacks aimed at Israel.

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