Amid Attacks on Israel-Linked Shipping, Ansarallah Says It Remains Committed to Truce with U.S.

On July 6, the Yemeni group Ansarallah released a dramatic video showing the sinking of a cargo ship called Magic Seas, a Greek owned ship with Liberian flags that the group attacked with a combination of small arms, RPGs, missiles, drones, and unmanned surface vessels. The next day another video showed an attack on the Eternity C, which also had Liberan flags and was hit with a sustained missile assault that killed several crew members, before sinking the vessel.

The ships struck by Ansarallah—also known as the Houthis—had links to Israel or were headed to Israeli ports, and were attacked as part of an ongoing blockade imposed on Israeli shipping by Ansarallah.

The Trump administration quickly issued a statement condemning “the unprovoked Houthi terror attack on the civilian cargo vessels” and the threats posed to “freedom of navigation and to regional economic and maritime security” by the group, raising the prospect of a renewed conflict between the U.S. and Ansarallah.