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.
Upon entering the facility on August 3, Houthi terrorists compelled the building’s remaining Yemeni staff to hand over their personal belongings and now occupy the grounds.
Following attacks on Israel by the Houthis, the Jewish state's history and relationship with Yemen has been thrust into the spotlight. Here's what you need to know.
Yemen was my journey’s first destination, but before long I understood I had to take time and expand my research, leaving behind Sana’a and its bridal attire.
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