💠Yemeni Operation Against Israeli Tanker💠

Tuesday 12 December 2023Year 1959 Number 12144

💠Yemeni Operation Against Israeli Tanker💠

‘A Victory for Oppressed Palestinian People’

Yemeni Operation Against Israeli Tanker

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (Dispatches) — A missile fired by Yemen’s armed forces slammed into a Norwegian-flagged Israeli tanker in the Red Sea off the coast of Yemen near a key maritime chokepoint, the country’s Ansarullah and authorities said Tuesday.

Yemen’s military spokesperson Brig. Gen. Yahya Saree issued a video statement saying the country’s armed forces only fired on the oil and chemical tanker Strinda when it “rejected all warning calls.”

“The naval forces of the Yemeni armed forces carried out a qualitative military operation against the Norwegian ship Strinda, which was loaded with oil,” bound for Israel, he said.

The strike was “a victory for the oppressed Palestinian people, who are currently being subjected to massacre, destruction, and siege in the Gaza Strip, and in response to the calls from freedom-loving Yemenis and people from other Muslim nations,” Saree said.

Yemeni forces, he said, “reiterate that they will continue to target all ships in the Red Sea and the Arabian Sea bound for Israeli ports, regardless of their nationality unless our steadfast brethren in the Gaza Strip receive the food and medicines they need”.

The U.S. military’s Central Command issued a statement Tuesday saying an anti-ship cruise missile “launched from a Houthi-controlled area of Yemen” hit the Strinda.