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The Houthis claimed responsibility for the attack on Wednesday, which set the Greek-owned, Barbados-flagged ship True Confidence ablaze approximately 50 nautical miles (93km) off the coast of Yemen’s port of Aden.

“The targeting operation came after the ship’s crew rejected warning messages from the Yemeni naval forces,” the militia’s military spokesman Yahya Sarea said in a televised speech.

The True Confidence is owned by the Liberian-registered company True Confidence Shipping and operated by the Greece-based Third January Maritime, both firms said in their joint statement. They said the ship had no link to the US.

However, it had previously been owned by Oaktree Capital Management, a Los Angeles-based fund that finances vessels on instalments.

The Houthis “will not stop until the aggression is stopped and the siege on the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip is lifted”, Saree said.

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[–] assassin_aragorn 19 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I would like to congratulate the Houthis on becoming the very monster they claim to be fighting. They've indiscriminately killed innocent people who are directly unrelated to the Israeli genocide of Gaza. Just like Israel, who is indiscriminately killing innocent people who are directly unrelated to the Hamas attack on Oct 7. Both groups even gave warnings and act like that's sufficient.

Are we positive that Netanyahu isn't secretly funding or boosting the Houthis?

[–] BombOmOm 4 points 9 months ago

Fuck the Houthis.

[–] MataVatnik 4 points 9 months ago

This comment section is entertaining

[–] harderian729 -4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

The Houthis “will not stop until the aggression is stopped and the siege on the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip is lifted”, Saree said.

Seems fair to me. All's fair in love and war, after all.

Glad these people are fighting back however they can, although it's sad more innocent lives are being lost because of Israel's genocide.