Yemen’s Houthi militia seized the Galaxy Leader commercial car carrying vessel in the southern Red Sea over the weekend, believing the ship to be linked to Israel. The IDF assured the ship is not Israeli. Where was the ship sailing from? Where was it headed? Who owns it? Who’s onboard? Sputnik did a bit of digging to find comprehensive answers.
The Yemeni militia effectively opened a second front against Israel last month amid Tel Aviv’s ongoing military operation against their “Palestinian brothers” in Gaza, conducting a series of attempted drone and missile strikes on Israeli targets 2,000 km away. Over the weekend, the militia upped the ante by seizing a suspected Israeli-owned ship.