Bless every single one of you and may you be protected.
Reminder that the Houthis have not killed a single person during the blockade, they have blocked trade. They will stop delaying shipping when the genocide stops. That is the point. And yet, Yemen has had to suffer and their people have been murdered by two of the biggest villain nations on the planet.
Netanyahu rejects any deal with Hamas for the release of captives that would end the war, despite calls from Israeli politicians.
Gaza’s Health Ministry says 178 Palestinians were killed and 293 injured in 24 hours, with attacks nearing Khan Younis’s vital Nasser Hospital.
Israeli government approves deal for frozen tax funds for the occupied West Bank and Gaza to be held in Norway, instead of being transferred to the Palestinian Authority. The latter rejects any conditions placed on its receipt of the tax revenue.
At least 25,105 people have been killed and 62,681 wounded in Israeli attacks on Gaza since October 7. The death toll in Israel from the October 7 Hamas attack stands at 1,139.
American and British politicians offer two contradictory rationales for the strikes on Yemen: first, that they are preventing an escalation of Israel’s war on Gaza and second, as if there is no connection with the former conflict, that they are protecting global shipping from the depredations of the Houthis. Firing dozens of missiles at a country thousands of miles away is an odd way to avoid escalation – the way to avoid escalation in the region would be to stop arming and diplomatically shielding Israel’s annihilatory war on Gaza. During the short-term ceasefire in November to facilitate the exchange of hostages, Houthi threats to ships in the Red Sea stopped. The Houthis are using the leverage given by geography – the fact that the value chains of global capitalism pass far beyond the borders of the states that benefit from them – to try to get Israel to cease fire in Gaza. In this they display a hard-headed understanding of both geopolitics and imperialism that has enraged the Western powers. The airstrikes demonstrate that the US and Britain care more about the profits of shipping companies than they do about the killing of one-in-a-hundred Gazans in three months. The Houthis do not issue statements about humanitarian suffering or call for peaceful understanding–they simply hit Israel’s backers where it hurts, in their economies.
Jamie Allinson, Yemen: ‘It’s not working: we’re going to keep doing it’
The Iranian-backed Houthi Islamists, attacked and sunk a Belize-flagged commercial ship in the Red Sea. The ship was carrying 21,000 metric tons of Ammonium Phosphate Sulfate, and untold quantities of heavy fuel oil, which is now polluting and destroying the diverse ocean and coral life.
This cynical Iranian Islamic attack on global shipping increases all our costs, and is an affront to our natural environment.
The Islamists could care less who they kill, hurt, or how they damage our fragile ecosystems.