Yemen’s Armed Forces (YAF) targeted the Maltese-registered ‘Elbella’ container ship and Cyprus-registered ‘Aal Genoa’ cargo ship. Both were targeted in the Red Sea using drones and ballistic missiles.
Spokesperson for the Yemeni Armed Forces Brig. Gen. Yahya Saree announced on Friday that Yemeni forces carried out two joint operations in the Red Sea “against two ships belonging to companies that violated the ban on entry to the ports of occupied Palestine.”
The spokesman clarified that the armed forces targeted the Maltese-registered Elbella container ship and Cyprus-registered Aal Genoa cargo ship. Both were targeted in the Red Sea using drones and ballistic missiles.
“Both operations come in solidarity with the people of Palestine in response to crimes perpetrated by the Israeli regime on displaced Gazans in Rafah,” Saree said, adding that they also happen to come as part of the expansion of Yemeni military operations in the fourth stage of escalation.
Last month, the Yemeni Armed Forces announced the “fourth phase of escalation” targeting Israeli and Israeli-linked ships in international waters. The range of operations has now come to include ships transiting the Mediterranean Sea.
In this stage, the Yemeni Armed Forces “will impose comprehensive sanctions on all ships and companies that are related to supplying and entering the occupied Palestinian ports of any nationality and will prevent all ships of these companies from passing through the armed forces’ operation zone, regardless of their destination.”
Source: AlMayadeen
