The Ansar Allah group announces the targeting of the American Pinocchio ship in the Red Sea
The military spokesman for the Yemeni Ansar Allah group, Yahya Sare’e, announced on Tuesday that the Iran-allied group targeted what it said was “the American ship Pinocchio” in the Red Sea.
According to public databases run by Equisys and the United Nations International Maritime Organization indicate that Pinocchio is a Liberian-flagged container ship owned by OM-MAR5, registered in Singapore.
“The Yemeni armed forces confirm that their military operations will escalate, with the help of Allah Almighty, during the month of Ramadan, the month of jihad, in support of, support and support for the oppressed Palestinian people and for our mujahideen brothers in the Gaza Strip,” Sare’e said in the speech broadcast on television.
The Ansar Allah attacks in the Red Sea disrupted global shipping, forcing companies to change their route to take longer and more expensive trips around South Africa, and raised fears of a widening war between Israel and Hamas, destabilizing the Middle East.
A spokesman for the internationally recognized Yemeni government told Reuters that at least 11 people were killed and 14 others were injured after air strikes, attributed to the US-British coalition, hit coastal cities and small towns in western Yemen, Monday.
The United States and Britain launched strikes on Houthi targets in Yemen and reclassified the movement as a “terrorist group”.
