Israel struck a Yemeni port after a Houthi drone struck Tel-Aviv.
Members of Houthi security forces stand together as smoke rises from a fire, as Houthi de facto authorities burn seized narcotics, July 20, 2024, in Sanaa, Yemen.Israel and Houthis in Yemen have traded fire for the first time, escalating tensions nine months after commercial ships in the Red Sea started to come under threat from the rebel group -- in a waterway the U.S. Navy has been patrolling since the war in Gaza began.
In an interview with ABC News before the series of attacks over the weekend, U.S. Special Envoy to Yemen Tim Lenderking, the senior U.S. diplomat to Yemen, said a more severe official designation of the Houthis is increasingly under consideration. "But when the Houthis are very clearly behaving and acting like a terrorist organization, it's forcing these questions to the fore," the diplomat said.
"The ICRC is concerned about any additional measures that may have adverse impacts on affected populations and the provision of impartial humanitarian assistance," Raddi said, noting that 90% of Yemen's food is imported and that "counterterrorism measures can create additional administrative and logistical burdens."A man takes pictures of a raging fire at oil storage tanks a day after Israeli strikes on the port of Yemen's Huthi-held city of Hodeida on July 21, 2024.
Protracted tensions on the Red Sea increasingly threaten a fragile peace within Yemen's borders, where an April 2022 truce froze an eight-year civil war between the Houthis and the former government in Sana'a. The truce has "largely held," Lenderking said, and a U.N.-led "roadmap" in December 2023 brought the Houthis and exiled government to the same table in agreement on a path forward.
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