After two cargo ships were hit in three days, they were "blacklisted" and the Houthis were listed as a terrorist organization by the United States.
On January 14, Houthis fired an anti-ship cruise missile at a U.S. destroyer, which was shot down by a U.S. fighter jet.
On the evening of January 15, Houthis used multiple missiles to launch an attack on a U.S. merchant vessel in the Gulf of Aden, hitting the container ship Gibraltar Eagle. (Read link: A U.S. Merchant Ship Hit by Houthi Missiles)
Is there any end in sight to the naval offensives between the U.S. military and the Houthis? The answer is no!
The latest CCTV news report: local time 16, Houthi military spokesman Yahya Saria issued a statement that the Houthis successfully attacked a ship named "Zografía" (Zografía).
The statement said that the ship was on its way to an Israeli port. The statement noted that the strike was in response to the crew's refusal to follow warnings, which included the firing of warning flares.
The Houthis announced that they will continue to prohibit Israeli ships or ships bound for Israel from sailing in the Red Sea and the Arabian Sea until Israel stops its attacks on the Gaza Strip and lifts the blockade on Gaza.
The statement also indicated that the Houthis would continue to take all defensive and offensive measures to defend their rights and interests.
On the same day, Qatar's Foreign Ministry spokesman, Mr. Al-Ansari, said that an agreement had been reached between Israel and the Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), mediated by Qatar and France, whereby the Qatari side would provide needed medicines to Israeli personnel detained in the Gaza Strip in exchange for Israel's agreement to provide medicines and other humanitarian assistance to the civilian population of the Gaza Strip.
Ansari said that the medicines and aid provided by the Cardinal side would be transported from Doha to the city of El Arish, Egypt, on the seventeenth of March via a Cardinal military aircraft and subsequently to the Gaza Strip.
The British Maritime Trade Operations Agency said that on the day of the 16th they received a report of an incident 100 nautical miles north-west of Salif, Yemen, indicating that a Maltese-flagged cargo ship owned by a Greek shipping company had been struck by a missile at that location.
The U.S. military launched a new airstrike against Houthi targets in Yemen in the early hours of Sana'a local time on 16 September, launching Tomahawk cruise missiles that struck a Yemeni Houthi missile facility and destroying four Houthi anti-ship ballistic missiles, according to a release from the U.S. Central Command.
Marcus Baker, head of global marine and cargo operations at marine insurance brokerage giant Dassin & Co, said some insurers are seeking to exclude U.S.- and U.K.-affiliated vessels when providing coverage for ships sailing through the Red Sea region; also, underwriters are adding clauses indicating that the U.S., the U.K. or Israel are not involved, Bloomberg reported on 16 local time.
According to the Wall Street Journal reported on the 16th local time, U.S. officials said that the U.S. government plans to put the Houthis back on the list of foreign terrorist organizations. The U.S. plans to formally announce the decision on the 17th, the report said. Kirby, spokesman for the White House National Security Council, said earlier in the day that the United States is reviewing the issue.
Previously, the Biden administration revoked the Trump administration's designation of Yemen's Houthis as a "foreign terrorist organization" in 2021.
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