Yemeni navy destroys British ship in Gulf of Aden
The Cradle | February 19, 2024
The Yemeni armed forces announced on 19 February a new attack on a British commercial vessel in the Gulf of Aden, adding that the ship was nearly destroyed.
“The naval forces of the Yemeni Armed Forces … carried out an effective military operation, targeting a British ship in the Gulf of Aden, RUBYMAR, with several naval missiles,” Yemeni army spokesman Yahya Saree said in a statement.
“The ship was seriously damaged, causing it to stop completely. As a result of the extensive damage the ship suffered, it is now at risk of sinking in the Gulf of Aden. We ensured the ship’s crew exited safely during the operation,” Saree added.
UK maritime authorities said an investigation was launched following reports of an explosion near a British cargo ship on Sunday.
The Yemeni spokesman added that air defenses also brought down a US MQ-9 drone “while it was carrying out hostile missions against our country on behalf of the Zionist entity.”
This was the third UK vessel that Yemen has struck in the last four days. The Yemeni army announced on 17 February an attack on the British oil vessel, the POLLUX, in the Red Sea. This came two days after an attack on the UK ship LYCAVITOS.
Since the US and UK launched a violent airstrike campaign against Yemen last month, Sanaa has attacked several US and British vessels in the Red Sea and elsewhere.
CENTCOM announced “five self-defense strikes” on what it said were Yemeni cruise missiles on Saturday.
Nevertheless, these strikes have done little to deter Yemen from continuing operations against Israeli-linked ships.
The Yemeni attacks have dealt a significant blow to the Israeli economy and western shipping as a whole. Several major shipping companies were forced to suspend journeys in the Red Sea and make lengthy and expensive reroutes.
Yemeni naval operations “will not stop until the aggression ends and the siege on the Gaza Strip is lifted,” Saree confirmed in Monday’s statement.
The Sanaa government’s Deputy Foreign Minister, Hussein al-Ezzi, warned on 16 February that Washington “will soon” regret its escalation against Yemen.
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Dear Houthis,
Please stop hitting our ships.
Yes I know that the British aircraft dropped a few bombs, [Sorry about the camels, but from a height of 30,000 feet they could be / were mistaken for missile launchers] but now we don’t have any left and it is very expensive to fly from Cyprus each time just to pretend to drop bombs.
Our magnificent aircraft carries at a cost of more than £6 bn are both in port although they had planned to come and bomb you, it appears that the propellers fall off and they fill up with water, but in a year or two they will definitely come and bomb you [maybe].
The boats that were going to shoot at you will soon have their repairs completed and if they can just get out of the harbour without banging into each other again, they will come and shoot at you until they run out of ammunition [which will take about an hour].
We were sending all our bombs and ammunition to Zelenski, but he wasted them on Russians, so now we are sending them to Netanyahoo [in the boat that you burned] who is going to slaughter all those dangerous women and children of Gaza because if he didn’t they would grow up not liking Israelis. This means that we don’t have any with which to kill you or your camels.
So please stop burning and shooting at our boats, we burned our bridges with GW Bush and we now have nowhere to run to.
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