Vessel hit 60 nautical miles off the coast of Yemen in the latest reported attack by movement.

An oil tanker is on fire in the Gulf of Aden, its operator says, after Houthis said they hit it with a missile.

US officials told the BBC’s US partner CBS the tanker was hit by an anti-ship ballistic missile and a naval ship was responding to its distress signal.

There were no injuries reported, the US officials said.

Houthi military spokesman Yaha Sarea said the group used “a number of appropriate naval missiles” and Friday’s strike was “direct”.

  • Maggoty@lemmy.world
    22·
    10 months ago

    So the crew on board was British. They thought it was somehow okay to attack a third country’s ship because the civilians on board were British. Maybe.

    That’s not a blockade. That’s a war crime.

      • Maggoty@lemmy.world
        2·
        10 months ago

        That idea of a blockade is a war crime unless you can prove it’s carrying war material directly to the blockaded country or it’s a military ship. Modern blockades thus generally require boarding the ship. Just shooting at cargo ships is a war crime and/or terrorism.

        • itslilith@lemmy.blahaj.zone
          12·
          10 months ago

          You are completely right, a blockade is a war crime when part of a war of aggression or against civilian vessels.

          Now remind me, who is blockading Gaza, and has for over a decade now?

          By no means are Iran and their proxies the good guys. But anyone supporting what Israel is doing to Palestine has orders of magnitude more innocent blood on their hands.