Yemen’s Houthis Bar Ship Headed to Israel as Attacks Continue

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Yemen’s Houthi rebels claimed they prevented a ship from sailing to Israel, as the Iranian-backed group escalates its attacks on vessels in the Red Sea in response to the war in the Gaza Strip.

The navy “forced a ship sailing towards occupied Palestine to change its direction and sail back,” Hussein al-Ezzi, the Houthi’s deputy foreign minister, said in a statement on X. His account couldn’t immediately be verified.