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Missile event in Yemen on Sun 3rd December 2023

3rd December 2023

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Yemeni Armed Forces hit 2 Israeli cargo ships in Bab al-Mandab Strait  

The Yemeni Armed Forces have confirmed the launching of two successful attacks on Israeli-owned ships, the Number 9 and Unity Explorer, on Sunday morning.  The Yemeni Armed Forces announced targeting the Israeli-owned Unity Explorer and Number 9 vessels in Bab al-Mandab Strait off the coast of Yemen, confirming direct hits on both.

In a statement, the spokesperson for the Yemeni Armed Forces, Brigadier General Yahya Saree, confirmed that Yemen's military carried out two attacks on Sunday morning on Israeli-owned ships in the Bab al-Mandab Strait.

Saree said while the Yemeni Armed Forces hit the Unity Explorer with an anti-ship missile, the Number 9 vessel came under attack via a sea drone.

"The [operations] came after the refusal of the two ships to heed to the [warnings] from the Yemeni Naval Forces," Saree underlined.

Meanwhile, he confirmed that the attacks came "in implementation of the directives of Sayyed Abdul-Malik Baderdine al-Houthi (Ansar Allah's leader) ... and in response to the demands of our great Yemeni people and the calls of the free Arab and Islamic Ummahs to fully support the choices of the Palestinian people and their steadfast Resistance."

Moreover, the spokesperson for Yemen's military renewed the Yemeni Armed Forces' warning to all Israeli and Israeli-associated ships, saying that they are "legitimate targets", advising them not to cross in or out of the Red Sea as he had done in previous statements.

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