Sanaa to target ships of US 10-nation coalition if they attack Yemen
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Ansar Allah official says that the vessels of the countries that will actively take part in actions against us will be legitimate targets.
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This Nov. 12, 2018 photo shows The USS Carney in the Mediterranean Sea (Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Ryan U. Kledzik/U.S. Navy via AP)
Yemeni Ansar Allah senior official Mohammed Ali al-Houthi said that Yemen would be targeting the vessels of countries that joined the US anti-Yemen naval coalition in the Red Sea.
"The vessels of those countries that will actively take part in the actions against us will be attacked by us in the Red Sea," Mohammed Ali al-Houthi, told the Al-Alam broadcaster.
US-led coalition to protect 'Israel'
The criminal onslaught being waged on Palestine forces every free man to take action and underline that they stand against the Zionist arrogance and criminality, Yemeni Ansar Allah spokesperson Mohammad Abdel Salam said on Tuesday.
Speaking to Al Mayadeen during an exclusive interview, the Yemeni top official underlined that Sanaa cannot directly "support occupied Palestine. We do not share any land borders and we can not engage in land confrontations; we do not have the capabilities but to participate by launching missiles and drones and conducting naval operations."
Abdel Salam also revealed that the Yemeni Armed Forces would not hold back and that the escalations taking place might see an uptick depending on the situation on the ground in light of all the challenges being faced by the Palestinian people.
In response to the operations being carried out by the Yemeni people in support of occupied Palestine and the people of Gaza, the United States military launched a new coalition in the Red Sea called "Operation Prosperity Guardian," under the guise of securing maritime trade routes. The United Kingdom, Bahrain, Canada, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Seychelles, and Spain will be among the countries jointly working with the Pentagon under the coalition.
This prompts the speculation of the US aiming to turn the Red Sea into a warzone to protect Israeli interests rather than simply "keep strategic waterways safe" as US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin claimed.
"This coalition is to protect Israel, not to protect international waterways [...] This cannot be called a coalition, it is, in reality, a stillborn, weak bloc," Abdel Salam went on to say.
"The international waterways adjacent to Yemen are safe and they do not suffer from any security or military issues," the Yemeni top official said. "The Yemeni Armed Forces and Navy have repeatedly said the waterways adjacent to Yemen are safe, and no ships other than the ones heading to Israel or Israeli ships are being targeted."
"Operation Prosperity Guardian" to protect Israeli genocidal war
On Monday, and under the guise of securing international maritime trade routes, US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin announced the establishment of Operation Prosperity Guardian, a 10-nation "multinational security initiative under the umbrella of the Combined Maritime Forces and the leadership of its Task Force 153, which focuses on security in the Red Sea."
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Earlier today, mobilizing efforts in the face of the Yemeni forces, US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin invited dozens of nations to take steps to address the operation conducted in the Red Sea as he spoke at a defense ministerial to tout a new military operation to secure commerce in the waterway.
"We're all here because many countries can directly contribute to our common efforts to keep strategic waterways safe," Austin said, according to prepared remarks.
Calling Yemen's attacks "reckless", he described it as "a serious international problem" that needs "a firm international response," which, as revealed earlier, will bring "together multiple countries to include the United Kingdom, Bahrain, Canada, France, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Seychelles, and Spain."
Read more: Operation Prosperity Guardian: US scrambles to secure Red Sea route
Rich Lowry, the editor-in-chief of National Review, wrote a piece in which he acknowledged that the sole superpower in the world [the United States] has failed to safeguard one of the most crucial global trade routes from "a band of third-world rebels".
He gushed: "Welcome to the latest humiliation of a Biden-administration foreign policy premised on not being overly provocative toward our enemies."
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