The Houthi rebels said the airstrikes will not stop its attacks on Red Sea shipping
  • FarceOfWill@infosec.pubEnglish
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    10 months ago

    The action of attacking random ships in international waters?

    This is piracy, and it puts huge numbers of civilian lives at direct risk and increases the chance someone else will also do it in future.

    The entire international community has a duty to stop this by almost any means.

    Their reasons for attacking civilian shipping in international waters could not be less important to the situation.

    • itslilith@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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      10 months ago

      A blockade without willingness to fire (even on civilian vessels) is toothless and therefore ineffective. I’m not sure if I’d call what they’re doing a blockade tho, and their justifications linking attacked ships to Israel are… strenuous at times

      • FarceOfWill@infosec.pubEnglish
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        10 months ago

        It’s not a blockade as they’re no where near Israel. They don’t have the ability to enforce a blockade of Israel, just to attack random ships

        • Linkerbaan@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          10 months ago

          This is false. The first ship they hijacked was claimed to not be israeli related but turned out to be owned by israeli businessman Rami Ungar

          The second ship with bio gas supposedly only went to Italy, but later came out that after the stop in Italy it had a transport to israel planned.

          I’m not going to to claim that every single ship was israeli. I have not looked into other vessel attacks since then. But at least the first big two that reached to news were in fact directly linked to israel despite initial claims that they weren’t.

            • Linkerbaan@lemmy.worldEnglish
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              10 months ago

              Actually came across it, here’s the supposed real reason:

              Ambrey assessed that the vessel was mistakenly targeted based on outdated publicly available information linking the vessel to the United Kingdom.

              “This appeared to be five months old but was still listed as UK-affiliated on a public maritime database,” the report said.