Deputy Foreign Minister: Yemen Capable of Sinking Enemy Ships Across Red, Arabian, Mediterranean Seas

Deputy Foreign Minister, Hussein Al-Ezzi, affirmed that Sana’a is capable of sinking enemy ships at any point across the Red, Arabian, and Mediterranean Seas.

“By the power of God, we can sink ships and battleships [from any point on the Yemeni mainland to any point in the Red, Arabian, and Mediterranean Seas],” Al-Ezzi wrote in a post on X on Saturday.

“But we leave that for another time,” he, however, added, noting, “We are still keen on peace with the least amount of escalation possible.”

On Friday, Yemeni Armed Forces announced that they had carried out a targeting operation against a British oil tanker in the Gulf of Aden.

The military spokesperson for the Armed Forces, Brigadier General Yahya Sare’e, stated in a press release that the operation was carried out by the naval forces.

Over the past month, the Yemeni Armed Forces have been staging many such strikes against Israeli vessels or those bound for the occupied Palestinian territories’ ports.

The operations have been described as a response to the October 7-present war and siege that the Israeli regime has been waging against Gaza following an operation carried out by the Palestinian territory’s resistance movements.

Around 26,000 Palestinians, some 70 percent of whom are women, children, and adolescents, have been killed in the brutal onslaught so far.

The United States and the UK have also conducted several missile attacks against Yemeni targets in response to the Yemeni strikes.

The latest operation raises the number of American ships targeted by the Yemeni Armed Forces to six since January 10, following an attack on three Yemeni naval boats by US forces, resulting in the martyrdom and loss of ten Navy personnel on December 30.