Yemeni Army Conducts Missile, Drone Attacks In Red, Arabian Seas

Brigadier General Yahya Saree spokesman for the Yemeni Armed Forces, said in a statement on the evening of June 5 that in support of the oppressed Palestinian people and in response to the crimes of the Zionist enemy against the displaced people in the Rafah city of the Gaza Strip, as well as within the framework of expanding military operations in the fourth phase of escalating tensions and responding to the aggression of the United States and Britain against our country, the naval, missile and drone forces carried out three military operations in the Red Sea and the Arabian Sea, as follows:

– In two operations in the Red Sea, a number of missiles and drones targeted two ships: the Roza ship and the Vantage Dream vessel, belonging to companies that violated the ban put by Yemen on entry of ships into the occupied Palestinian ports.

– The third operation, carried out with several drones, targeted the US ship Maersk Seletar in the eastern Arabian Sea.

Brigadier General Saree added that the Yemeni Armed Forces, with the help of God Almighty, will continue their military operations in support and aid of the oppressed Palestinian people until the end of the Israeli attacks and the lifting of the siege on the Gaza Strip.

– The Roza ship is a bulk carrier that has been operating under the Liberian flag since 2010. Its origin and destination are recorded as the ports of Port Said and the Suez Canal.

– The Vantage Dream ship is also a bulk carrier that has been operating under the Liberian flag since 2011. This vessel was also moving from India towards the Suez Canal in Egypt.

– The Maersk Seletar ship is a container ship that has been operating under the US flag since 2007. This vessel was also moving from Spain to an unknown destination.

According to statistics of the IWN, the attacks by the Yemeni Armed Forces on the aforementioned ships, as stated in the statement by Brigadier General Yahya Saree, are the 103^rd-106^th official attacks by Yemeni forces against banned ships (Israeli, the US, British vessels as well as ships affiliated with them) in the Red Sea, the Arabian Sea, and the Indian Ocean.