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An oil tanker is on fire in the Gulf of Aden, its operator says, after Houthis said they hit it with a missile.
US officials told the BBC’s US partner CBS the tanker was hit by an anti-ship ballistic missile and a naval ship was responding to its distress signal.
There were no injuries reported, the US officials said.
Houthi military spokesman Yaha Sarea said the group used “a number of appropriate naval missiles” and Friday’s strike was “direct”.
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A tanker with links to the UK
Eeryone and their moms have ships registered on tax havens. The Houthi’s are looking at actual ownership and/or destination.
After America and UK have started bombing Yemen they have been banned from passing. This is a direct consequence of UK’s support for war crimes. The UK fucked around and are now the ones finding out.
There isn’t a shipping MNC in the world without links to the US or UK. That’s like saying humans with a link to Oxygen.
So the crew on board was British. They thought it was somehow okay to attack a third country’s ship because the civilians on board were British. Maybe.
That’s not a blockade. That’s a war crime.
a blockade without willingness to follow up on the threat to shoot, is not a blockade
That idea of a blockade is a war crime unless you can prove it’s carrying war material directly to the blockaded country or it’s a military ship. Modern blockades thus generally require boarding the ship. Just shooting at cargo ships is a war crime and/or terrorism.
You are completely right, a blockade is a war crime when part of a war of aggression or against civilian vessels.
Now remind me, who is blockading Gaza, and has for over a decade now?
By no means are Iran and their proxies the good guys. But anyone supporting what Israel is doing to Palestine has orders of magnitude more innocent blood on their hands.
The only connection this has to Israel is your idiotic assertion.