The Iran-backed Houthi terrorist organization controlling Yemen threatened to turn the Red Sea into a “graveyard” on Monday in response to U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin announcing a coalition to stop Houthi pirate attacks on shipping vessels in the region.

The Houthis – a terrorist group that has waged civil war in Yemen since 2014 and calls itself “Ansar Allah” – declared war on Israel in October in response to the country organizing a defensive response against the Sunni jihadist terror group Hamas.

Hamas launched an unprecedented wave of atrocities in Israel on October 7, killing 1,200 people and abducting an estimated 250 others in a spree of mass rape, killings of entire families in their own homes, torture of children, and corpse desecration filmed and uploaded online.

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On Monday, Houthi leaders announced they would attack Israel-bound or Israeli-owned ships in the waters around Yemen indefinitely until Israel ceased self-defense operations in Gaza, the Hamas stronghold. Yemen is located on the Bab al-Mandab Strait, the mouth of the Red Sea on the way to the Suez Canal, giving the Houthis tremendous leverage to disrupt global trade. An estimated 12 percent of global trade passes through the Red Sea, which allows for a much shorter route than traveling south and around Africa’s Cape of Good Hope.

Several Houthi targets insist they have no relation to Israel, prompting at least 12 companies at press time to redirect their ships or otherwise modify operations to protect from Houthi attacks.

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