Video appears to show a series of explosions on the vessel, amid fears of a potential major oil spill.
Yemen’s Houthis have released video showing the armed group detonating explosives on the Greek-flagged Sounion tanker.
The Pentagon says the Sounion is a navigational hazard and warns of a potential environmental catastrophe.
The Sounion was on its way from Iraq to Athens when it was attacked by more than a dozen people in two small boats.
The Yemeni group seizes UN Human Rights Office in the capital Sanaa as it extends a crackdown on foreign organisations.
Houthis say ship in Gulf of Aden struck by ballistic missiles in first attack since Israeli strike on Hodeidah port.
Hans Grundberg says recent developments suggest ‘threat against international shipping is increasing in scope’.
The Houthis have endured a half-year of American strikes, delivering US President Biden a major foreign policy defeat.
The Yemeni group remains undeterred in its support for Palestine despite the massive Israeli attack on a key port.
Israel says the unprecedented Houthi attack on Tel Aviv was a result of a reengineered drone.
“We are seeing a widening of the conflict,” says ME Studies Professor Marc Owen Jones in a Yemen-Israel attack analysis.
The air raids killed six people a day after a drone attack by the Yemeni group killed one person in Tel Aviv.
The Houthis say they targeted vessels in Israel’s Haifa port together with the Islamic Resistance in Iraq.
Organisations decry the ‘unacceptable situation’ of assaults by Yemeni group against vessels in the Red Sea.
