Yemen says launched first strike against US, Israeli vessels in Indian Ocean

Yemen’s Armed Forces announce starting their pro-Palestinian operations in the Indian Ocean by targeting several Israeli and American ships in the body of water in protest at the Israeli regime’s US-backed genocidal war against the Gaza Strip.

The forces’ spokesman Brigadier General Yahya Saree announced the developments in a statement, which he read out on Friday to the people attending the weekly million-march in support of Gazans in Sana’a. 

The forces, he said, “carried out three operations against three Israeli and American ships in the Indian Ocean with a number of appropriate naval missiles and drones, and the three operations successfully achieved their goals.”

The forces have been targeting Israeli vessels or those “associated” with the occupying regime in the Red Sea and the Arabian Sea since October 7, when Tel Aviv began the war in response to a retaliatory operation staged by Gaza’s resistance movements.

The war has so far killed nearly 31,500 people, mostly women, children, and adolescents.

Saree’s statement came only a day after Abdul Malik al-Houthi, leader of Yemen’s Ansarullah popular resistance movement, announced that the Yemeni forces were to expand their operations to include Israeli or Israeli-linked vessels that would pass through the Indian Ocean and through the Cape of Good Hope.