Houthis offered no evidence to support their claims, according to the reports. The US military also told AP it had “received no reports” of a US drone being downed.
In her first-ever interview with an Israeli newspaper, Majda Alhaddad, a women’s rights activist originally from Yemen, tells about her journey combatting the oppressive Houthi regime.
The attack marks the latest in a series of strikes by the Iranian-backed Houthis that have disrupted the flow of $1 trillion in goods passing through the Red Sea annually.
Israel’s strike on Hodeidah has temporarily stopped Houthi attacks, but threats to shipping routes continue.
Houthi blockade attempts have led to the deaths of four sailors, the destruction of two ships, and the seizure of another.
Selling weapons on X is against the terms of service; the company’s failure to identify the Houthi-linked trade could mean Musk’s company has broken US law.
The Houthis said it attacked the tanker in part because Delta Tankers' violated its ban on "entry to the ports of occupied Palestine," Houthi military spokesman Yahya Saree said in a tv speech.
Sounion was targeted on Wednesday by multiple projectiles off Yemen's port city of Hodeidah, where the Iran-aligned Houthis have been attacking ships.
UN rights chief Volker Turk, who reported the office's seizure last week, condemned the action as “a serious attack on the ability of the UN to perform its mandate.”
The attacker "drove a booby-trapped car into a site for the security forces," in the Mudiyah district, Mohamed al-Naqib, a spokesperson for the Southern Transitional Council, said.
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