Yemen’s Houthis fire missiles at British oil tanker bound for India

Houthi rebels raise flags of Yemen and Palestine during an armed parade to show their willingness to battle attacks by the US-led military coalition, at Amran, Yemen, on December 20, 2023 [Mohammed Hamoud/Getty Images]

Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthi group has claimed a new missile attack on Western interests amid Israel’s war on Gaza, this time on a British oil tanker that the United States identified as a Panamanian-flagged vessel carrying crude oil bound for India.

Yahya Saree, the group’s military spokesperson, said in a televised statement on Saturday that a “large number of appropriate naval missiles” were used to target the Pollux tanker in the Red Sea in “accurate and direct” hits.