The Yemeni group seizes UN Human Rights Office in the capital Sanaa as it extends a crackdown on foreign organisations.
Houthis say ship in Gulf of Aden struck by ballistic missiles in first attack since Israeli strike on Hodeidah port.
Hans Grundberg says recent developments suggest ‘threat against international shipping is increasing in scope’.
The Houthis have endured a half-year of American strikes, delivering US President Biden a major foreign policy defeat.
The Yemeni group remains undeterred in its support for Palestine despite the massive Israeli attack on a key port.
Israel says the unprecedented Houthi attack on Tel Aviv was a result of a reengineered drone.
“We are seeing a widening of the conflict,” says ME Studies Professor Marc Owen Jones in a Yemen-Israel attack analysis.
The air raids killed six people a day after a drone attack by the Yemeni group killed one person in Tel Aviv.
The Houthis say they targeted vessels in Israel’s Haifa port together with the Islamic Resistance in Iraq.
Organisations decry the ‘unacceptable situation’ of assaults by Yemeni group against vessels in the Red Sea.
The attack on the cargo ship caused flooding and damage to the engine room, but there were no reports of casualties.
Latest pressure campaign comes as US says peace plan cannot move forward if Red Sea attacks persist, Bloomberg reports.
The Yemeni group says military operations were launched jointly with Iraqi groups, but Israel denies attacks.
Rebel group claims assault after reporting 16 killed in US-UK attacks on the Hodeidah province.
