Houthis claim to attack ship in northern Red Sea over alleged connection to Israel

Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthis say that they have attacked a ship in the northern Red Sea with two drones and a missile because of its alleged connection to Israel.

The group does not say when the attack happened. There is no immediate confirmation of the attack from maritime sources.

“The Yemeni armed forces carried out a joint military operation targeting the ship … for violating the [Houthis] decision to ban entry to the ports of occupied Palestine,” the group’s spokesperson says.

The Houthis on Sunday claimed to have attacked the Israeli-owned tanker Scarlet Ray near Saudi Arabia’s Red Sea port city of Yanbu in a rare attack off the Saudi coast.

Israel last Thursday killed the prime minister of Yemen’s Houthi-run government and several other ministers in a strike on the capital Sanaa, the first such attack to kill senior officials.