Meeting to be convened on Tuesday to address Houthi attacks in Red Sea: U.S.

Published December 18,2023

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The U.S. secretary of protection on Monday mentioned a digital assembly with ministers within the area shall be convened on Tuesday to handle Houthi assaults within the Red Sea.

“Regarding the Houthis, these attacks are reckless, dangerous and they violate international law. So we’re taking action to build an international coalition to address this threat,” Lloyd Austin mentioned at a news convention along with his Israeli counterpart Yoav Gallant in Tel Aviv.

Austin is on a Middle East tour, together with Bahrain, Qatar, and Israel. He and Gallant mentioned the continuing warfare in Gaza, the safety of civilians, and the current assaults on vessels within the Red Sea by Yemeni Houthi rebels.

He mentioned the assaults usually are not “just a US issue,” however a world downside and it deserves a world response.

“And that’s why I’m convening a meeting tomorrow. A ministerial meeting with fellow ministers in the region and beyond to address this threat,” Austin mentioned, including it is going to be a digital assembly.

“I sit up for that dialogue and extra importantly I sit up for working along with members of that group to handle the menace in a significant approach sooner or later.

“We’ll have more details on this soon. But we’re going to make sure that we’re doing everything that we can to ensure freedom of navigation in the area,” he added, underlining the straits are “pretty important.”

Previously, U.S. National Security Council spokesman John Kirby mentioned that industrial site visitors transit within the Red Sea is “more dangerous” now than earlier than and the White House can have “more to say” in regards to the particulars of a maritime job drive within the coming days.

A Houthi spokesman mentioned that the group would goal all ships headed to Israel, no matter nationality, and warned all delivery corporations to keep away from coping with Israeli ports.

The group’s operations towards vessels coincide with Israel’s assaults on the Gaza Strip since an Oct. 7 cross-border offensive by the Palestinian group Hamas.