NATO on Friday said the US-led strikes on Yemen's Huthis were aimed at protecting shipping through the Red Sea and urged Iran to "rein in its proxies".
Recent attacks against shipping vessels in the Red Sea "cannot go unanswered", France's foreign minister said Sunday during a visit to Israel, following several such operations by Yemen's Houthi rebels.
Yemen's Huthi rebels struck a cargo ship in the Red Sea on Friday, causing a fire on deck in the latest of a near-daily series of attacks in the commercially vital waterway.