Heavy! Regardless of nationality and destination port! Houthi attacks expand further

On May 4, local time, the Israel Defense Forces bombed the Gaza Strip, causing many casualties. The day before, the Israeli Air Force also attacked Hezbollah military facilities in the Mairkebah area in southern Lebanon.

Against this background, the Houthi armed forces in Yemen announced that they would expand their attacks on Israeli-related ships to the Mediterranean region, emphasizing that this action would take "immediate effect."

The scope of Houthi attacks has expanded again!

According to CCTV News, on May 3, local time, Yahya Saraya, spokesman for the Yemeni Houthi armed forces, issued a statement saying that the leader of the Houthi armed forces, Abdul Malik Houthi, had ordered the organization to carry out a series of operations against the terrorists from the Mediterranean Sea. Attacks were launched on all ships heading to Israeli ports.

Saraya said at a rally in Sanaa, the capital of Yemen, on the 3rd that the Houthi armed leaders had ordered an attack on all ships heading to Israeli ports from the Mediterranean, and regarded this action as an attack on Israel and its Western allies led by the United States. The fourth phase of armed escalation measures.

The strikes will target all ships supporting Israel and transporting supplies to occupied Palestinian ports.

Starting from today (3rd local time), the Houthi armed forces will attack relevant ships in the Mediterranean area "coverable by their weapons."

In addition, Saraya also said that if Israel launches an attack on the southern city of Rafah in the Gaza Strip, the Houthi armed forces will continue to expand the scope of the attack. In the past few months, they have had conflicts with Israel in the Red Sea, Arabian Sea, Indian Ocean and Mediterranean Sea. All vessels of the trading company, regardless of their nationality and destination port.

However, Salam Asbashi, a former senior general of the Yemeni government forces, said in an interview with Xinhua News Agency that the closest distance between the Mediterranean and Yemen is about 1,800 kilometers, and the missiles and drones of the Houthi armed forces will enter the Mediterranean. It would also need to pass through Egyptian or Israeli air defense systems.

Therefore, he believes that it is difficult for the organization to pose a real threat to ships in the Mediterranean.

The Red Sea crisis has escalated again!

This expansion of the strike range to the Mediterranean Sea is another escalation of the Red Sea crisis after the Houthi armed forces expanded the strike range from the Bab el-Mandeb Strait to the Indian Ocean!

After a new round of Palestinian-Israeli conflict broke out in October last year, Yemen's Houthi armed forces used drones and missiles to repeatedly attack targets in the Red Sea and Arabian Sea.

Shortly after the Palestinian-Israeli conflict broke out in October 2023, the Houthis began to use drones and missiles to attack "Israel-related" ships in the Red Sea waters to show "support for Palestine."

Since January 12, 2024, the United States and the United Kingdom have launched multiple air strikes against Houthi armed targets, causing casualties.

In March 2024, the Houthi armed forces announced that they would expand the scope of their attacks, not only attacking Israeli-related ships passing through the Arabian Sea, Red Sea and Gulf of Aden, but also including ships passing through the Indian Ocean heading to the Cape of Good Hope.

It is reported that the Houthi armed forces attacked a container ship in the Red Sea some time ago and threatened merchant ships in the Indian Ocean hundreds of miles away. On the evening of April 26, the Houthis threatened to expand the scope of drone attacks to the Indian Ocean, including drone attacks on commercial ships traveling between Asia and Europe near the Cape of Good Hope.

Houthi claims that in the Red Sea naval campaign that began in November, his forces have so far launched 606 ballistic missiles and unmanned aerial vehicles at 107 Israeli, US and British ships in the Red Sea, Bab el-Mandeb Strait, the Gulf of Aden and most recently the Indian Ocean. machine.

Data shows that about 90 ships have been targeted so far.

It remains to be seen whether, as the Houthis say, they will be able to directly attack Western ships from the Mediterranean to ports in the Israel-Gaza Strip, it remains to be seen; it is also unclear how much impact this plan of the Houthis will have on the region. .

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