Houthi declares closure of Bab Al-Mandeb to Israeli ships, threatens to target it

Abdul-Malik Al-Houthi, the leader of the Ansar Allah movement in Yemen, announced on Tuesday that the eyes of Sana’a are constantly monitoring and searching for any Israeli ship in the Red Sea, specifically in the vicinity of Bab Al-Mandeb and the Yemeni territorial waters. He affirmed that Sana’a’s naval forces would not hesitate to target it.

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“The Israelis depend on their movement in the Red Sea from Bab Al-Mandab on smuggling and camouflage and did not dare to raise Israeli flags on their ships,” Al-Houthi said in a televised speech. “The enemy’s ships turn off their identification devices in the Red Sea,” he continued. But it will not succeed, because we will find their ships and strike without hesitation.”

The Israeli enemy’s reliance on this tactic in the Red Sea demonstrated their fear and the effectiveness and impact of our country’s position and our people on them. He confirmed that Sana’a will defeat “the enemy’s ships in the Red Sea, and we will deal with them, and at whatever level they reach our hands, we will not hesitate to target them, and the whole world should know this.”

The leader of the Ansar Allah movement also mentioned that “since the beginning of the events in Palestine, we have received threatening and tempting messages from the American side, but we did not care about them.” He emphasized that the Yemeni people “have declared their position and are ready for all its consequences. We are a mujahid people, and we have made sacrifices to stand firm in our position towards Palestine from the first day we raised our Sarkha.”