Snips + CarrZee comments below + DW

Weirdly, I couldn’t read the website reporting the news:

DW:

When the US announced a naval coalition to protect commercial vessels traveling in the Red Sea earlier this week, the Americans initially said there would be 10 countries taking part. Questions arose almost immediately about why some of the largest Arab naval powers were not.

Since mid-November, the Houthi rebel group in Yemen has been firing rockets and sending drones to harass ships traveling through the Bab el-Mandeb Strait. A senior Houthi official said on social media that this won’t stop “until the crimes of genocide in Gaza are stopped and food, medicine and fuel are allowed to enter its besieged population.”

CarrZee: The name of the operation is stupid because it’s clearly aimed at protecting the prosperity of the west…while the genocide in Gaza goes on.

Threatening trade is a an excellent way (and not necessarily violent) to put pressure on the west to cease the violence in Gaza.

(Corrects to say I could NOT read the website; more to come)