The Houthis claimed responsibility for the attack on Wednesday, which set the Greek-owned, Barbados-flagged ship True Confidence ablaze approximately 50 nautical miles (93km) off the coast of Yemen’s port of Aden.
“The targeting operation came after the ship’s crew rejected warning messages from the Yemeni naval forces,” the militia’s military spokesman Yahya Sarea said in a televised speech.
The True Confidence is owned by the Liberian-registered company True Confidence Shipping and operated by the Greece-based Third January Maritime, both firms said in their joint statement. They said the ship had no link to the US.
However, it had previously been owned by Oaktree Capital Management, a Los Angeles-based fund that finances vessels on instalments.
The Houthis “will not stop until the aggression is stopped and the siege on the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip is lifted”, Saree said.
They’re using their sovereign rights to blockade their waters. I don’t care about the demonization or the disruption of shipping. They’re putting themselves in the sights of the US out of sheer empathy. Which gives me hope.
They are not blockading ‘their waters’. They are murdering civilians in international waters. Because of this, we will continue to diminish their ability and destroy the murderers involved in these attacks.
Dont you have some crayons to eat?
They’ve killed two people out of quite a sizable number of attacks. Deeply unfortunate anyone died, but it speaks to the fact they’re trying to avoid civilian casualties. They have the courage to stand up to the US backed genocide of Gaza, because not long ago, they faced similar odds in the US backed, Saudi destruction of Yemen.
You’re not trying to avoid civilian casualties if you fire on civilians.
Civilians they told to turn back. Its a single ship not an entire landmass. They immobilized most ships and ceased fire. That’s not some kind of unrestrained bloodlust.
Firing a Mach 4 missile with 1,300 lbs of warhead at civilians is, in fact, unrestrained bloodlust. They ceased fire because it would be wasteful to fire again.
That’s like saying, “The cop didn’t dump a second magazine into the man who didn’t respond to the cop’s commands. He showed restraint! The guy is still breathing, he’s just immobilized!”
The ship they attacked is the True Confidence, a ship registered in Liberia and operated by Greece. The crew members were Indian, Vietnamese, and Filipino. The vessel had been sailing to Saudi Arabia from China.
Where did you get the idea any of this has to do with Israel or the US? You don’t get to just murder random people and claim it is for some cause. The Houthis have become the monster they claim to fight.
from their leader and troops
sorry bud but if you’re really going to equate the death of two people to a genocide you lost me there.
Are you out of your fucking mind? Should everyone go around killing random sailors because there are genocides happening in the world. What are in flying fuck are you smoking
Those waters aren’t safe. They are free to circumnavigate
They are not. Many of these sailors have barely any agency in their lives, and certainly can’t just tell a multinational corporation they’re taking the long route
Yeah, the ENTIRE CONTINENT OF AFRICA is the only other route, you fucking imbecile of a child. But keep defending the illegitimate killing of civilians on random trade ships.
If the Houthi’s truly told them to turn around it’s rather weird they decided to just continue after being warned.
Yeah, it’s really weird that operators of cargo frigates have to incur really high operating costs and have to weigh the risk/benefits of rerouting along THE ENTIRE CONTINENT OF AFRICA. Hmmm. It’s like these people depend on paychecks for their living. So weird!
Also, these people have nothing to do with the ongoing conflict in Israel. They are just sailors trying to earn a living.
And before you dare say it: I’m not defending Israel. Let me repeat: NOT. DEFENDING. ISRAEL. Israel no good. Israel: BAD. IDF: BAD. Houthi?? Also bad.
That’s bullshit. When you fire explosives at a crewed ship, you are trying to, or willing to kill them. It doesn’t matter how successful you are
They don’t care about any genocide anywhere and the fact that you’ve bought into this narrative without question is a clear indication that your are a child.