The Houthis claimed responsibility for the attack on Wednesday, which set the Greek-owned, Barbados-flagged ship True Confidence ablaze approximately 50 nautical miles (93km) off the coast of Yemen’s port of Aden.
“The targeting operation came after the ship’s crew rejected warning messages from the Yemeni naval forces,” the militia’s military spokesman Yahya Sarea said in a televised speech.
The True Confidence is owned by the Liberian-registered company True Confidence Shipping and operated by the Greece-based Third January Maritime, both firms said in their joint statement. They said the ship had no link to the US.
However, it had previously been owned by Oaktree Capital Management, a Los Angeles-based fund that finances vessels on instalments.
The Houthis “will not stop until the aggression is stopped and the siege on the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip is lifted”, Saree said.
They’ve killed two people out of quite a sizable number of attacks. Deeply unfortunate anyone died, but it speaks to the fact they’re trying to avoid civilian casualties. They have the courage to stand up to the US backed genocide of Gaza, because not long ago, they faced similar odds in the US backed, Saudi destruction of Yemen.
That’s bullshit. When you fire explosives at a crewed ship, you are trying to, or willing to kill them. It doesn’t matter how successful you are
You’re not trying to avoid civilian casualties if you fire on civilians.
Civilians they told to turn back. Its a single ship not an entire landmass. They immobilized most ships and ceased fire. That’s not some kind of unrestrained bloodlust.
Firing a Mach 4 missile with 1,300 lbs of warhead at civilians is, in fact, unrestrained bloodlust. They ceased fire because it would be wasteful to fire again.
That’s like saying, “The cop didn’t dump a second magazine into the man who didn’t respond to the cop’s commands. He showed restraint! The guy is still breathing, he’s just immobilized!”
Israel told Palestinian civilians to seek shelter and that bombs were incoming. Does that absolve them of killing so many innocent people?
Of course not. Same goes here.
Israel told them to go to safe spots, such as refugee shelters or the Rafah crossing. The bombed both anyways. Not only does it take significantly more time to evacuate 2 million people, they had no where to evacuate to. This ship and the employers had an option, go through a passageway where they were explicitly warned they would be fired upon or turn back. They chose to ignore explicit orders believing the US had more control and could grant them safe passage. That’s not remotely comparable.
It’s not in any way defensible for the Houthis however.
The ship they attacked is the True Confidence, a ship registered in Liberia and operated by Greece. The crew members were Indian, Vietnamese, and Filipino. The vessel had been sailing to Saudi Arabia from China.
Where did you get the idea any of this has to do with Israel or the US? You don’t get to just murder random people and claim it is for some cause. The Houthis have become the monster they claim to fight.
If the Houthi’s truly told them to turn around it’s rather weird they decided to just continue after being warned.
Yeah, it’s really weird that operators of cargo frigates have to incur really high operating costs and have to weigh the risk/benefits of rerouting along THE ENTIRE CONTINENT OF AFRICA. Hmmm. It’s like these people depend on paychecks for their living. So weird!
Also, these people have nothing to do with the ongoing conflict in Israel. They are just sailors trying to earn a living.
And before you dare say it: I’m not defending Israel. Let me repeat: NOT. DEFENDING. ISRAEL. Israel no good. Israel: BAD. IDF: BAD. Houthi?? Also bad.
Israel warned civilians before bombing the shit out of them. Why didn’t they just evacuate? /s
This is no excuse. The Houthis just killed a bunch of innocent brown people because the brown people refused to heed their warning of violence. If we condemn Israel for that, we must condemn the Houthis for that as well.
You’re right those ships had nowhere else to go but through the designated Red Sea evacuation route. They were literally forced there. It was an ethnic shipping cleansing.
from their leader and troops
sorry bud but if you’re really going to equate the death of two people to a genocide you lost me there.
Are you out of your fucking mind? Should everyone go around killing random sailors because there are genocides happening in the world. What are in flying fuck are you smoking
Those waters aren’t safe. They are free to circumnavigate
They are not. Many of these sailors have barely any agency in their lives, and certainly can’t just tell a multinational corporation they’re taking the long route
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You want them to circumnavigate the ENTIRE CONTINENT OF AFRICA because a bunch of rebels are vying for political clout? Where were the Houthis when 100k people were being genocided right next door in Syria? Oh that’s right. That genocide doesnt matter, huh?
You mean while they were under complete siege and 80,000 died? You wanted them to attack their allies and also take on mass starvation/bombing raids from Saudi Arabia 😆
No, I want to see how consistent they are on the principle of genocide or if it’s only the more popular ones which give them more clout.
In your world -if you have any logical consistency- ANY country has free reign to attack ANY civilian trade vessels in international waters on behalf of a genocide happening somewhere. Stop and think about that for a second.
It just happens that the Houthis align with condemning this one particular genocide in Gaza so people like you come on and glaze for a bunch of disgusting people that are violating human rights in their own country left and right all day long but because Gaza is so hot in the news now it’s convenient to defend the Houthis actions. It’s sick and disgusting.
They don’t care about any genocide anywhere and the fact that you’ve bought into this narrative without question is a clear indication that your are a child.
Thanks for replying to every comment I’ve made to ensure I know that I am a ‘fucking child’. It’s the most mature display I have ever seen. You’re teaching me how to be an adult.
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