🔻 Attacks on ships around the Strait of Hormuz reached their highest level in wartime.

According to reports published by Kepler and Windward, during the past week (between 5 and 11 October) 12 commercial vessels were targeted, the highest weekly number since the start of the war, surpassing the 11 attacks in the first week of the war.

On 11 October alone, six ships were attacked: five tankers and one container ship in the Strait of Hormuz and near the port of Sohar, Oman.

Tankers were also attacked in the vicinity of Qatar, in the east of Fujairah, and in ports in the United Arab Emirates over the past week.

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