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The Houthis blow up a 150,000 tonnes Greek oil tanker in the Red Sea

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Mark Camilleri
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Yesterday, the Houthis in Yemen blew up a 150,000 tonnes Greek oil tanker in the Red Sea. The Sounion was laden with oil from Iraq and was heading to Greece before it was attacked y Houthi rebels. An EU naval mission successfully evacuated 25 crew-members from the ship after it was hit four rockets and gun-fire by small boats.

The Houthis have blocked the entrance to the Red Sea at the Bab el-Mandeb Strait as of early this year and an Allied coalition between EU states and the US has failed to remove the blockade. The Houthis, who are an Iranian proxy group in Yemen, are firing at commercial ships to supposedly help Palestinians in Gaza.

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