Yemeni Army Carries Out Attacks In Red Sea, Indian Ocean

Brigadier Yahya Saree, the spokesman for the Yemeni Armed Forces, announced in a statement that Yemeni Armed Forces have carried out five military operations over the past 72 hours. Brigadier Saree provided details of these attacks:

– The naval forces of the Yemeni army, with the help of suitable naval missiles, targeted the British ship Hope Island in the Red Sea and succeeded in hitting it directly by the grace of God.

– Additionally, two ships belonging to the Israeli regime, including MSC Grace F in the Indian Ocean and MSC Gina in the Arabian Sea, were targeted with a number of ballistic and cruise missiles and successfully hit their targets by the grace of God.

– The Yemeni Air Forces also carried out two military operations using drones to target a number of US military ships in the Red Sea, which also successfully hit their targets.

The Hope Island is a container ship that has been operating under the flag of the Marshall Islands since 2006. The ship was en route from the port of Jeddah in western Saudi Arabia to the port of Mombasa in Kenya when it was attacked by the Yemeni army about 61 nautical miles southwest of Al Hudaydah, Yemen. According to Britain, the Ansar Allah movement fired two ballistic missiles towards the ship, which landed near the vessel.

The MSC Grace F is a general cargo ship that has been operating under the flag of Panama since 1991. The ship’s departure site was the port of Mogadishu in Somalia, and it was heading towards an unspecified destination (likely Israeli ports).

The MSC Gina is also a container ship that has been operating under the flag of Panama since 1999. The ship’s departure site was mentioned as the port of Colombo in Sri Lanka, and it was en route to the port of Salalah in Oman.

Brigadier Yahya Saree stated at the end of this statement that the Yemeni armed forces are determined to carry out their decision to prevent the shipping of Israeli or ships associated with the Israeli enemy to the occupied Palestinian ports via the Red Sea, Arabian Sea, and Indian Ocean, until the cessation of the war and siege of the people of Palestine in the Gaza Strip.

The missile operations of the Yemeni armed forces against the ships Hope Island, MSC Grace F, and MSC Gina are counted as the 60th, 61st, and 62nd operations respectively, as well as the drone attack on the US ships as the 63rd and 64th operations against Israeli, American, and British ships and their affiliated vessels in the Red Sea, Arabian Sea, and the Indian Ocean.

The Yemeni armed forces, on March 15, expanded their operations against the Israeli regime on the orders of Sayyed Abdul-Malik Badreddine al-Houthi, the leader of the Ansar Allah movement, and announced that they would also chase Israeli ships in the Indian Ocean and the Horn of Africa.