Houthis announce countdown to attacks on shipping
(www.newsweek.com)
from IndustryStandard@lemmy.world to world@lemmy.world on 11 Mar 2025 18:37
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from IndustryStandard@lemmy.world to world@lemmy.world on 11 Mar 2025 18:37
https://lemmy.world/post/26684089
“Confirming the readiness of the Yemeni naval operations, whose mission is to confront the Israeli American starvation and terrorist siege of Gaza,” senior Ansar Allah member Mohamed Ali Al-Houthi posted in an Arabic statement on X.
“Any escalation will be the responsibility of the Israeli and American enemies.”
This follows a four-day deadline declared Friday by Ansar Allah leader Houthi for Israel to lift its blockade on humanitarian aid entry to Gaza or face maritime threats. Israel has blocked aid entry and halted electricity supply to Gaza, putting pressure on Hamas over negotiations.
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Honestly, good on them. Despite being bombed, starved, sanctioned, and impoverished the Yemenis have been the only ones consistently taking actual steps to cut off Israel and stop the Genocide. Ultimately, whatever western media says, the Yemenis are on the right side of history and the side of humanity here- critique of Ansar Allah itself aside.
The only ones? Most of the world agrees with the ICC. I don’t hate the Houthis for being motivated strongly against a genocide, but I don’t think their approach is targeted well at all and it seems to kinda just be what they were gonna do with or without the genocide anyways. Further, their aggression towards cargo ships is particularly problematic since this is likely to lead to 20+ day shipment delays on supplies of all types which could be vital and also closes off low margin shipments to places which may not have many options.
Most of the world agrees with the ICC but who’s stopping shipments and suffering the ire of the US empire for their troubles?
To your other point about targeting and trade, they have exclusively targeted shipping that is owned by or going to Israel or entities associated with Israel. The reason why you’re not seeing shipping is because the insurance companies don’t want anything to do with it and that is what is stopping trade through the Suez, not any kind of “sloppy Houthi targeting”.
I don’t understand how in the realm of hourly war crimes against humanity, attacking a trade route is seen as a controversial tactic when it’s quite a common tactic used by literally every nation with a semblance of an armed forces, for as far back as historically recorded warfare.
Even the USA enforces naval blockades all the time by seizing tankers. You just don’t see any bullets fired because no one wants to fight the US navy.
Israel was notably affected with a port closing due to this exact scenario, but more importantly, it directly affected the trade of Israel’s primary military sponsor, the USA.
afaik, no deaths have occurred due to the US spending a tremendous amount of time and money intercepting missiles, and because even the ships that were hit sustained medium damage due to the nature of anti ship missiles usually needing several to sink a ship.
Okay, but they never stopped, so…?EDIT: It would seem I’m fake news this time - the incident in February I was thinking of was suspected of being a Houthi attack, but later turned out not to be. My mistake - this is then a credible threat.
In fact they did stop, immediately after the thing they demanded in order to stop happened.