A Yemeni military source has been quoted by Al Jazeera that the British vessel was en route to an Israeli port in the occupied Palestinian territories when it was hit by Yemeni missiles on Thursday night.
The spokesman for Yemen’s Armed Forces, Brigadier General Yahya Saree has confirmed the attack, noting that the strike on the vessel was part of the country’s support for the Palestinian people in Gaza who have been under unprecedented bloody aggression by the Zionist regime nearly the four months.
Yemen says it will keep targeting any Zionist or Zionist-linked vessels in the Red Sea as long as the war in Gaza continues and the besieged territory remains under the blockade.
The Yemeni army has conducted over two dozen attacks on Israeli-linked commercial vessels in the Ted and Arab Seas since mid-November.
Even the US-British strikes against Yemen over the past couple of weeks have failed to stop the Yemeni maritime campaign against the Zionist regime.
On Wednesday, US Central Command (CENTCOM) announced it shot down Yemeni drones and their command centers, also claiming that American forces destroyed “a Yemeni suicide boat in the Red Sea”.
Meanwhile, a top official of Yemen’s Ansarullah Movement said his country is prepared to confront with American and British forces.
Ali al-Qahoum was quoted by Russia’s Sputnik news agency as saying that the US and the UK despite their attacks, have failed to protect Israeli interests in the Red Sea.
“As America and Britain are supporting the Israeli regime, we are witnessing desperate efforts by the Yemeni government and people for their calls to keep supporting Palestine”, al-Qahoum added.
He also warned the US and the UK that they would face the consequences of their aggression against the Yemeni nation and the support for the Zionist regime.
Following a UN Security Council resolution on the Red Sea last month, the United States and the United Kingdom began attacking the positions of the Yemeni army and Ansarullah inside Yemen despite criticism from many countries that such attacks are in violation of international laws and the UN charter.
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