Yemeni forces have carried out a military operation targeting British oil ship Marlin Luanda In the Gulf of Aden, using a number of appropriate naval missiles, military spokesman for the Armed Forces Brigadier General Yahya Sare’e said in a statement this evening.
“In support of the oppressed Palestinian people and in support and solidarity with our brothers in the Gaza Strip, and within the response to the American-British aggression against our country. Yemeni naval forces carried out a targeting operation on the British oil ship Marlin Luanda In the Gulf of Aden, using a number of appropriate naval missiles. The strike was direct, and resulted the burning of the vessel,” Brigadier General Yahya Sare’e said in the statement.
“Yemeni Armed Forces persist in their military operations: enforcing a blockade on Israeli navigation in the Red and Arabian seas until a ceasefire is achieved in Gaza, and food and medicine are allowed in to the besieged Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip,” he stressed.
The military spokesman concluded his statement by saying: “The Yemeni Armed Forces confirm that they are taking all military procedures within the right to defend dear Yemen and in confirmation of the continues practical solidarity with the Palestinian people.”
