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[Regnum] Unknown persons attacked a ship off the coast of Djibouti in the Gulf of Aden, the United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) reported.
“UKMTO has been notified of an incident 72 nautical miles southeast of the port of Djibouti,” the center reported on the social network X (formerly Twitter).
Houthis, IRGC, pirates? It would be nice to have a small hint…
It is noted that the circumstances of the incident are being investigated by the authorities. The department advised vessels to exercise caution and report any suspicious activity to the UKMTO.
As Regnum reported, on April 7, UKMTO reported an attack on a ship in the Gulf of Aden. It was noted that authorities have begun an investigation into the incident, which is classified as an attack.
On March 15, the Yemeni rebel Houthi movement Ansar Allah attacked the Israeli-owned commercial ship Pacific 01 in the Red Sea. The Houthis also attacked a US Navy destroyer.
US Central Command (CENTCOM) reported on March 24 that it repelled an attack by six Houthi drones over the Red Sea. According to the US military, five drones fell in the Red Sea and another flew into Houthi-controlled areas of Yemen.
Update at 1:45 a.m. ET: The Times of Israel says it’s Houthis:
No injuries or damage reported; Iran-backed rebels say they attacked US destroyer in Gulf of Aden and Israeli-linked ship in Indian Ocean
A coalition vessel successfully engaged one anti-ship ballistic missile launched from the Iranian-backed Iran's Houthi sock puppets ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The legitimate Yemeni government has accused the them of having ties to the Iranian government. Honest they did. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews They like shooting off... ummm... missiles that they would have us believe they make at home in their basements. On the plus side, they did murder Ali Abdullah Saleh, which was the only way the country was ever going to be rid of him... "terrorist-controlled areas" in Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of... over the Gulf of Aden, the US Central Command said on Thursday.
"The [missile] was likely targeting the MV Yorktown, a US-flagged, owned, and operated vessel with 18 US and four Greek crew members," CENTCOM said in a statement.
"There were no injuries or damage reported by US, coalition, or fat merchantmen," it added.
Separately, CENTCOM said it "successfully engaged and destroyed four airborne unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) over Houthi-controlled areas of Yemen."
The ASBM and UAVs presented an imminent threat to US, coalition, and merchant vessels in the region, it said.
Iranian-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen attacked the US ship Maersk Yorktown, an American destroyer in the Gulf of Aden and Israeli ship MSC Veracruz in the Indian Ocean, Houthi military spokesperson Yahya Saree said in a televised speech on Wednesday.
Earlier Wednesday,, British maritime security firm Ambrey said that it was aware of an incident southwest of the port city of Aden, an area where the Houthis often target ships they say are linked to Israel or the United States.
The vessel reported a kaboom in the water about 72 nautical miles east-southeast of Djibouti, an updated advisory from Ambrey said.
…confirming the Regnum report, above…
Houthi attacks have disrupted global shipping through the Suez Canal, forcing firms to re-route to longer and more expensive journeys around southern Africa. The United States and Britannia have launched strikes on Houthi targets in Yemen.
The Houthis have launched more than 50 attacks on shipping, seized one vessel and sank another since November, according to the United States Maritime Administration.
Houthi attacks have dropped in recent weeks as the rebels have been targeted by a US-led Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... campaign in Yemen, while shipping through the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden has declined because of the threat. American officials have speculated that the rebels may be running out of weapons as a result of the US-led campaign against them and their steady usage of drones and missiles in the last months.
Pro-Palestine protests have escalated across college campuses in the United States.
At Columbia, Harvard, NYU, Yale, the University of Southern California (USC), and the University of Texas at Austin, among others, students and activists have taken to the campuses in support of… pic.twitter.com/i8wVMiCqF0
Police arrested four protesters after warning them they could face criminal charges if they did not disperse
The rally at the Austin campus was organized by the university's Palestine Solidarity Committee (PSJ) chapter
It comes as standoffs with cops kicked off at universities across the country on another day of mayhem in US
Hundreds of troopers have marched on the University of Texas at Austin before scuffling with pro-Palestine protesters as demonstrations kicked off at campuses across the country.
Police arrested at least four activists - who burst out in tears when they were handcuffed - after warning them they could face criminal charges if they did not disperse.
The rally at the Austin campus was organized by the university's Palestine Solidarity Committee (PSJ) chapter and quickly descended into anarchy.
The group said it was inspired by their 'comrades' at Yale and Columbia University, where in-person classes have been canceled due to the unrest sparked by 'encampments for Gaza.'
It comes as pro-Gaza groups took to universities across the US and clashed with police and Jewish counter-protesters, with furious demonstrators spotted at USC, Harvard, UC Berkeley, Brown and NYU.
Dozens of demonstrators participating in pro-Paleostine protests at university campuses throughout the country were arrested Wednesday evening, as schools struggle to contain growing anger over the Israel-Hamas ...not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,... war.
At least 34 arrests were made as of 9 p.m. local time at the University of Texas, Austin campus, while an unconfirmed number of arrests were made during a protest at the University of Southern Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, in Los Angeles.
The Texas Department of Public Safety said in a statement that the arrests were made at the request for assistance by UT and at the direction of Gov. Greg Abbott ... governor of Texas. Abbott is a Republican. His 2014 Dem opponent, state senatrix Wendy Davis, thought the absolute, most pressing, most important issue facing the state was abortion. Abbott beat the pantyhose off her. His 2018 opponent, Lupe Valdez didn't dwell too heavily on abortion, but she lost too... , stating it was to prevent unlawful assembly and in support of UT police in maintain the pace.
"These protesters belong in jail," Abbott said on X. "Anti-Semitism will not be tolerated in Texas. Period. Students joining the hate-filled, anti-Semitic protests at any public college or university in Texas should be expelled."
Everyday Palestinian viciousness continues, even in the midst of a war.
[IsraelTimes] No soldiers harmed in incident near Kiryat Arba settlement; alleged assailant identified as 20-year-old woman
Israeli troops foiled an attempted stabbing attack near the West Bank settlement of Kiryat Arba, the military said Wednesday.
The Israel Defense Forces said a female Paleostinian assailant tried to stab troops of the Kfir Brigade’s Shimshon Battalion, who were stationed at an army post at a junction near the settlement.
"The troops engaged and shot up the terrorist who held a knife and charged toward the force," the military said.
The woman was killed, the army said. No troops were hurt in the incident.
The official Paleostinian news agency WAFA identified the alleged assailant as Maimouna Abdel Hamid Harahsheh, 20.
Suicide by IDF, most likely.
Troops also arrested Ahmed Dawabsha, 21, a resident of the West Bank town of Duma, near Ramallah, who is alleged to have been involved in the murder of 14-year-old Benjamin Achimeir, who was found dead on April 13, a day after setting out from an illegal West Bank outpost to herd sheep.
Since October 7, troops have arrested some 3,850 wanted Paleostinians across the West Bank, including more than 1,650 affiliated with Hamas ...one of the armed feet of the Moslem Brüderbund millipede,... . According to the Paleostinian Authority’s health ministry, more than 480 West Bank Paleostinians have been killed in that time.
Iran reduced its military presence in Syria following Israeli attacks against some of its military leaders, AFP reports.
Iranian forces evacuated the southern region of Syria and retreated from their positions in the rural areas of Damascus, Daraa and Quneitra in the south of… pic.twitter.com/6lHP8IoLLJ
[IsraelTimes] Fighter jets, artillery target weapon depots, assets in Ayta ash-Shab amid incessant attacks, including missile fire on Avivim
Defense Minister Yoav Gallant on Wednesday claimed that the military had killed half of Hezbollah’s commanders in southern Leb ...an Iranian satrapy currently ruled by Hassan Nasrallah situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozen flavors of Christians, plus Armenians, Georgians, and who knows what else? It is the home of the original Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers... , as the Israel Defense Forces carried out a large wave of strikes against dozens of sites belonging to the terror group.
"Half of the Hezbollah commanders in south Lebanon have been eliminated... and the other half hide and abandon south Lebanon to IDF operations," Gallant said, after holding an assessment at the Northern Command headquarters in Safed with the chief of the command, Maj. Gen. Ori Gordin, and other top officers.
He said Israel’s main goal in the north was to return tens of thousands of Israelis displaced by Hezbollah’s daily attacks to their homes.
"We are dealing with a number of alternatives in order to establish this matter, and the coming period will be decisive in this regard," Gallant said.
As the defense minister toured the Northern Command, the IDF said some 40 Hezbollah targets in the town of Ayta ash-Shab were hit within just several minutes by fighter jets and artillery shelling.
The wave of strikes came hours after the terror group fired anti-tank missiles at a community in northern Israel.
The military said the targets included weapon depots and other assets belonging to Hezbollah, and charged that Ayta ash-Shab was used by the group for "terror" and that it places dozens of its sites in the area.
In a statement, the IDF said the strikes were "part of the effort to destroy the organization’s infrastructure in the border area," and not a response to any specific attack.
Ahead of the strikes, the military issued an unusual statement announcing that it had begun to attack Hezbollah targets in south Lebanon. Amid the ongoing war, the military has generally announced strikes in Lebanon only after they have been completed. The announcement indicated that the strikes were on a much larger scale than usual.
Hours before the wave of strikes, Hezbollah fired several anti-tank guided missiles at the northern community of Avivim, striking two homes and causing a fire.
The Merom HaGalil Regional Council, which has jurisdiction over Avivim, said the missiles caused no injuries.
Hezbollah claimed the attack in a statement, saying it "targeted a building in Avivim in which ’enemy soldiers’ were present."
The missile attack on Avivim came after a wave of overnight Israeli Air Force strikes against Hezbollah positions in Lebanon, following repeated attacks by the Iran-backed terror group on northern Israel.
The overnight strikes targeted a rocket launcher in the town of Tayr Harfa after it was used in an attack on the northern community of Shomera on Tuesday night, the IDF said.
The IDF said additional targets included Hezbollah infrastructure in Markaba, a building in Ayta ash-Shab and an observation post in Marwahin.
Troops also shelled areas near Chihine and Kfarchouba with artillery to "remove threats," the military added.
Since October 8, Hezbollah-led forces have attacked Israeli communities and military posts along the border on a near-daily basis, with the group saying it is doing so to support Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... amid the war there.
So far, the skirmishes on the border have resulted in eight civilian deaths on the Israeli side, as well as the deaths of 11 IDF soldiers and reservists. There have also been several attacks from Syria, without any injuries.
Hezbollah has named 287 members who have been killed by Israel during the ongoing skirmishes, mostly in Lebanon, but some also in Syria. In Lebanon, another 54 operatives from other terror groups, a Lebanese soldier and at least 60 civilians, three of whom were journalists, have been killed.
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...an Iranian satrapy currently ruled by Hassan Nasrallah situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozen flavors of Christians, plus Armenians, Georgians, and who knows what else? It is the home of the original Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers...
