US warns Ansarallah against attacking Israeli ships
The Cradle | December 15, 2023
The White House has sent back-channel messages to Yemen’s Ansarallah warning them to stop their attacks on ships in the Red Sea and against Israel, Axios reported on 15 December.
US special envoy for Yemen, Tim Lenderking, recently visited the Gulf to meet his Saudi, Omani, and Qatari counterparts to discuss the attacks by Ansarallah and convey a message to the Yemeni group.
The Axios report said that Lenderking emphasized that the “US is highly concerned about Houthi attacks that threaten freedom of navigation in international waters.”
However, the warnings sent by the US to Ansarallah against the actions that the group is taking in the Red Sea have not done much to deter the solidarity of the Yemeni resistance group with the Palestinian people.
In a statement from the Yemeni Armed Forces yesterday, spokesman Yahya Sarae said that the Yemeni Armed Forces Navy “carried out a military operation against the container ship Maersk Gibraltar, which was headed to the Israeli entity. It was targeted by a drone, and it was directly hit.”
“The targeting operation came after the ship’s crew refused to respond to the calls of the Yemeni Naval Forces,” Sarae added. “The Yemeni Armed Forces have successfully prevented several ships headed to the Israeli entity from passing through in the last 48 hours.”
Sarae affirmed Yemen’s continued efforts to prevent ships heading to Israeli ports from navigating in the Arabian and Red Seas until necessary food and medicine are allowed to enter the Gaza Strip.
In response to the attacks and seizures of commercial vessels by Ansarallah, the US envoy for Yemen has told Reuters that the US wants to form the “broadest possible” maritime coalition to protect ships in the Red Sea and send an “important signal” to Yemen that these attacks will not be tolerated.
“There’s a very, very active assessment going on in Washington about the steps necessary to get the [Ansarallah] to de-escalate,” Lenderking said, while also calling on Ansarallah to release the crew of the Galaxy Leader, a ship seized on 19 November.
In response to the US Red Sea coalition proposal, Iran’s Defense Minister Mohammed Reza Ashtiani said that Washington and its Gulf allies would face “extraordinary problems.”
“If they make such an irrational move, they will face extraordinary problems. Nobody can make a move in a region where we have predominance,” Ashtiani told Iranian media.
Israel’s National Security Council has ordered ports to hide their shipping schedules in response to Yemen’s attacks against Israeli ships and vessels headed toward Israel.
Yemen’s refusal to allow these Israeli-linked ships to pass the Bab al-Mandab strait has forced companies to change course and take the long route around Africa, further increasing Israel’s war costs.
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