{"id":43627,"date":"2024-09-03T10:31:49","date_gmt":"2024-09-03T10:31:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gulftimes.ae\/houthis-operation-to-prevent-major-red-sea-oil-spill-under-way\/"},"modified":"2024-09-03T10:31:49","modified_gmt":"2024-09-03T10:31:49","slug":"houthis-operation-to-prevent-major-red-sea-oil-spill-under-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gulftimes.ae\/?p=43627","title":{"rendered":"Houthis: Operation to prevent major Red Sea oil spill under way"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Houthis &#8211; who have falsely claimed to only target Israeli, US and UK ships &#8211; attacked the Sounion with gunfire, before hitting it with three unidentified projectiles, UK Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) said last week. Its 25 crew members were rescued by a European warship.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The tanker was later attacked again, with footage released by the group showing Houthi militants boarding the ship and lighting fires on its deck.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The leader of the Houthis called the attack \u201cbrave and bold\u201d in a recent address.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The US State Department has previously warned a spill from the Sounion could be almost four times as large as the Exxon Valdez disaster in 1989. That incident saw 2,100km (1,300 miles) of coastline contaminated after a tanker ran aground off Alaska.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Houthis have continued to target crude oil tankers in the Red Sea in recent days.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">On Monday, US military command said two vessels carrying oil were hit with ballistic missiles and a drone, including the Saudi-owned and flagged MV Amjad, which is said to be carrying around two million barrels of oil.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A US-led military operation has carried out strikes in Yemen, where the Houthis control much of the country, in an attempt to disrupt its ability to strike vessels passing through one of the world\u2019s busiest shipping lanes.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/cx2812pry0yo\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Houthis &#8211; who have falsely claimed to only target Israeli, US and UK ships &#8211;&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":43630,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[2499,1213,610,172,2470,495,1291,2606],"class_list":["post-43627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-top-stories","tag-houthis","tag-major","tag-oil","tag-operation","tag-prevent","tag-red","tag-sea","tag-spill"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v21.0 (Yoast SEO v27.4) - 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