Yemeni Government, UN Approve a Plan to Deal with the Sunken Ship in Red Sea
Well-informed Yemeni government said a joint plan was approved by representatives of the government and United Nations experts to deal with the Rubymar British vessel, which sunk off the coast of Mocha in February. According to sources, Yemen is facing a new environmental disaster that will require international cooperation and funding in order to limit the risks of leakage of the ship’s cargo and pollution of the marine environment, in a case that reminds of the SAFER oil tanker, which was carrying more than one million barrels of crude oil. The sources noted that Yemen has not yet eliminated the risks of environmental pollution resulting from the leakage of the remainder of the cargo of SAFER, because the Houthis prevented the UN teams from completing the last stage of the rescue operation, which is cleaning its tanks and then towing them to a nearby port.
Senior figures from Hamas and Yemen’s Houthis held a rare meeting to discuss coordinating their actions against Israel, Palestinian factional sources told AFP on Friday. Hamas and the Houthis belong to the “axis of resistance,” a collection of Iran-backed movements hostile to Israel and the United States that also includes Lebanon’s Hezbollah and Iraqi militias. According to sources from Hamas and Islamic Jihad, leaders from the two Palestinian Islamist groups, as well as the Marxist Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, held an “important meeting” with Houthi representatives last week. The groups discussed “mechanisms to coordinate their actions of resistance” for the “next stage” of the war in Gaza, the sources said without identifying where the meeting took place
The U.S. Central Command(CENTCOM) said today that between approximately 8:30 and 10:50 p.m. (Sana'a time) on March 15, the Houthi group fired three anti-ship ballistic missiles toward the strategic waterway. According to CENTCOM, there were no injuries or damage reported by the US-UK coalition or commercial ships. The British maritime security company Ambrey and the United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) announced a security incident in the vicinity of Al-Hudaydah port on Friday night. Ambrey declared that a ship was hit around 80 nautical miles northwest of Al-Hudaydah port, while UKMTO reported that the incident occurred 65 nautical miles west of Al-Hudaydah.
Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly has reaffirmed Egypt’s support for Yemen and its legitimate government, emphasizing Cairo’s keenness to support efforts to preserve the Yemeni state’s stability, unity, and territorial safety. Madbouly made the remarks during a phone call he received from Yemen's prime minister Ahmed Awad bin Mubarak. The Egyptian prime minister pointed out to the distinguished relations between Egypt and Yemen as well as their joint keenness to propel those relations to wider prospects. The two sides probed strong and historical relations between the Egyptian and Yemeni countries and peoples. They also discussed a number of regional and international issues of common interest.
