Yemen's Houthi rebels have announced their intention to target all ships owned or operated by Israeli companies or carrying the Israeli flag. They have also launched ballistic missiles and drones at various Israeli targets, including the Red Sea city of Eilat.
The Houthi rebels' declaration of war on Israel and their attacks on Israeli ships and cities have significant implications for regional stability and the ongoing Israel-Hamas conflict. The escalation of tensions raises concerns of a wider conflict involving Iran-backed groups in the region.
The conflict between Israel and Hamas in Gaza has been ongoing since October 7, with Hamas launching attacks on Israel and Israel responding with airstrikes. The Houthi rebels in Yemen have joined the conflict by targeting Israeli ships and launching missile and drone attacks on Israeli cities. The escalation of tensions raises concerns of a wider conflict involving Iran-backed groups in the region.
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Israel, formally known as the State of Israel, is a country in Western Asia, located on the southeastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea and the northern shore of the Red Sea.
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Yemen, officially the Republic of Yemen, is a country at the southern end of the Arabian Peninsula in Western Asia. It is the second-largest Arab sovereign state in the peninsula, occupying 527,970 square kilometres.
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The Houthi movement, officially called Ansar Allah and colloquially simply Houthis, is an Islamic political and armed movement that emerged from Sa'dah in northern Yemen in the 1990s.
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The Red Sea is a seawater inlet of the Indian Ocean, lying between Africa and Asia. The connection to the ocean is in the south through the Bab el Mandeb strait and the Gulf of Aden.
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Hamas is a Palestinian Sunni-Islamic fundamentalist militant organization. It has a social service wing, Dawah, and a military wing, the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades.
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Iran, also called Persia, and officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, is a country in Western Asia. It is bordered to the northwest by Armenia and Azerbaijan, to the north by the Caspian Sea, to the northeast by Turkmenistan, to the east by Afghanistan a
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Eilat, or Umm Al-Rashrash sometimes in Arabic, is Israel's southernmost city with a population of 51,935, a busy port and popular resort at the northern tip of the Red Sea, on what is known in Israel as the Gulf of Eilat and in Jordan as the Gulf of Aqaba
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