🔻Yemen’s navy seized a ship carrying military equipment from Iran for the Houthis

Yemeni media report that early this morning, the country’s navy carried out a naval operation that thwarted an attack by Houthi militias and seized a ship carrying military equipment from Iran.

According to Al Jazeera, Yemen’s navy says the ship was carrying drone-manufactured equipment for the Houthis and was seized off the coast of Al-Makha in the Red Sea.

Saba News Agency, based in Aden, citing the navy of the country, reported that the equipment was smuggled by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and was due to be sent to the Houthis.

According to reports by military media supportive of Yemen’s government, naval patrols opened fire on five Houthi boats that were approaching islands near the international shipping route and forced them to withdraw to the north. The report also said that a Houthi reconnaissance drone was shot down.