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Yemen's Houthi rebels claimed to have fired ballistic missiles at an oil tanker linked to Saudi Arabia in the Red Sea, thereby intensifying the enforcement of the maritime blockade declared against the Arab kingdom.
The military spokesman for the Iran-aligned group, Yahya Saree, stated that the vessel violated the insurgent siege, ignored radio warnings, and was forced to change course.
Separately, the United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) agency reported that the captain of a tanker reported an explosion while transiting the southern part of the same maritime area.
The UKMTO indicated that both the crew and the vessel were safe and that no environmental damage was recorded, although Reuters could not immediately verify if this alert is related to the attack attributed to the militia.
The Yemeni group had announced on July 20 the imposition of this naval blockade in response to what it called a Saudi siege against its territory, an accusation that Riyadh has denied.
In this context, the Saudi Arabia-led coalition claimed to have carried out attacks against insurgent military positions in the Hodeidah governorate, arguing that these facilities were used to threaten commercial navigation.
Subsequently, the rebels attacked oil infrastructure in two ports on the Red Sea coast, to which the Riyadh-backed forces responded with new bombings, extending this conflict, which is already disrupting global energy supplies, to a second front.
