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Threat to Red Sea shipping growing: UN envoy
Recent developments in the Red Sea and surrounding waterways suggest the threat to international shipping from the Houthis is increasing.
Hans Grundberg, UN special envoy to Yemen, discussed the situation at the UN Security Council following Houthi attacks on commercial vessels and the first Israeli air raids on Yemen’s Hodeidah port.
The Houthis have launched missiles and drones at Israel and disrupted global trade through the Red Sea in response to Israel’s war on Gaza nine months on.
Israel-Houthi confrontation at a ‘new and dangerous level’
The Houthi attacks on Israel and Israeli retaliatory attacks on Yemen’s port of Hodeidah and its oil and power facilities represent “a new and dangerous level” of violence, a UN official warns.
In a briefing to the UN Security Council, special envoy to Yemen Hans Grundberg said there could be a devastating regional escalation.
“I remain deeply concerned about the continued targeting of international navigation in the Red Sea and its surrounding waterways. Recent developments suggest that the threat against international shipping is increasing in scope and precision.”
Hezbollah says it launched dozens of rockets at nothern Israel
The group has said it fired dozens of Katyusha rockets at Kiryat Shmona, an Israeli town near the Lebanese border.
Earlier, Hezbollah claimed to have launched drone and rocket attacks on a military post in Mount Meron and a Burkan rocket at a post near the village of Margliot.
The group said the attacks were in retaliation for an Israeli drone attack on the southern Lebanese village of Shaqra in which a member of Hezbollah’s elite Radwan Force was killed.
