Houthis enforce embargo on ships heading to or leaving Israel
Houthis enforce embargo on ships heading to or leaving Israel
The Houthi-led government in Yemen announced that it had forced an Israel-bound ship to turn back as it was sailing through the Red Sea in violation of the warnings issued on Saturday
all palestinian violence against israel is self-defense.
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Yemen's PM: Naval Blockade on Israel Stems from Genuine Will of Yemen in Solidarity with Palestine
[Ansar Allah’s Prime Minister] Bin Habtoor clarified that this naval blockade will persist until Gaza's siege is lifted and essential supplies like food and medicine reach the Palestinian population.
I haven’t been able to find Ansar Allah’s statement (in English or otherwise). If I understand correctly, Almasirah Media Network is their main outlet, and their reporting on this is no more detailed as yet: Armed Forces Announce Restriction on Ships Bound for Zionist Entity
-- Who dis?
-- Houthis.
-- You first!
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In full seriousness, beyond posturing and making an ideological statement, how will the Houthi Movement enforce this blockade in any way? They have no navy, no modern anti-ship missiles, no naval Air Force, or any meaningful way to affect shipping in the Red Sea without getting wiped off the face of the Earth by UN anti-piracy naval and air forces in stationed in Djibouti.
They've already been using drones to harass Israeli affiliated ships and even seized one. They don't have to be able to completely stop shipping, just to make it riskier and more expensive to do. That puts direct economic pressure on Israel. There's a good article talking about this in more detail here https://new.thecradle.co/articles-id/14235
I think the a major component of the blockade is that one they begin to capture or burn ships, the insurance rate goes way up. Once the ships become even slightly more costly the margins go down. Once it is even possibly unprofitable to use the straight, they will have effectively created a blockade.
Plus, investors are fickle as anything. The slightest whiff of this isn't safe and it's off. They might take a risk on something with a massive potential profit. But many (most?) ships aren't carrying that kind of thing. That's not the kind of risk that investors don't mind gambling with.
Bab el Mandab is a very narrow strait and the Houthis have the ability to strike anywhere in the Red Sea and the Arabian Sea
With what? They have no naval military craft at all, zero. The most they have is drones, though they have been noted to be useful only with harassment engagements.
Also they absolutely do not have free reign over the Arabian and Red seas. That is one of the most high defended areas in the world, with anti piracy operations from UN nations constantly patrolling, destroying, and capturing pirates and smugglers. The Chinese, Americans, Russians, French, and British all have their own naval base and airfield in Djibouti for the express purpose of supporting those operations. Plus air and naval assets from dozens of UN countries.
Bab el Mandab??? You’re kidding right? I’m sure trying to capture or destroy a ship 25 meters away from the combined naval and air assets of nearly 45 countries is going to go well.
What did the Afghans have when they defeated the US?
What did the Yemenis (Houthis) have when they defeated Saudi Arabia and UAE?
More importantly what can anyone do to stop them? Nothing unless the US wants to repeat its failure in Afghanistan.
I stopped posting on lemmygrad because every other week I have to post the same comment... "Houthi" is a racist term. Please do better.
I just used the title from the article, and was not aware of this. Now I know.
I'm Arab and supportive, and sometimes use it. The term isn't racist, there's no racial significance to it. They do prefer the term Ansar Allah and I think we should use it. While some use the term Houthis to delegitimize them, I have seen supporters use the term as well, it is named after their leaders, Hussein and Abdul-Malik al-Houthi.
I want to stress that we should use the official name, or simply refer to them as the government of Yemen, but it is wrong to assume that the term is purely pejorative specially when used here.
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They've emphasized for many years now that they don't use this term but it's so normalized that even some friends use it too which is sad. Everyone disrespects the Yemenis. Lots of Muslims and Arabs use the term and we shouldn't be using it either. Maybe racist isn't the right word. I dont know. Seems racist that they don't get respected enough to even be allowed to name themselves.
