DUBAI, April 7. /TASS/. The Yemen-based rebel Houthi movement Ansar Allah has delivered strikes on a UK vessel in the Red Sea as well as on two Israeli ships in the Indian Ocean and the Arabian Sea, the movement’s representative Yahya Saria said.

He told Al Masirah TV that during an operation in the Red Sea, the movement attacked the UK’s Hope Island vessel. According to him, in the Indian Ocean and the Arabian Sea, the Houthis attacked commercial ships Grace F and Gina, belonging to the Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC), heading to Palestine. Additionally, the official asserted that the movement delivered drone strikes on several US Navy frigates in the Red Sea.

After the escalation of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict in the Gaza Strip, the Houthis warned that they would launch strikes on Israeli territory while barring ships associated with the Jewish state from passing through the waters of the Red Sea and the Bab el-Mandeb Strait until Tel Aviv ceased its military operation against Palestinian radical group Hamas in the embattled enclave. Since last November, the Houthis have attacked dozens of civilian vessels in the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden.