UN Security Council demands immediate end to Houthi Red Sea attacks
- The Yemeni rebels have stepped up strikes in the area, causing shipping companies to bypass the route, significantly adding to journey times and cost
- The Houthi’s say they are acting in solidarity with Palestinians, as Israel wages war in Gaza over the October 7 Hamas attacks
The United Nations Security Council demanded on Wednesday an “immediate” end to attacks by Yemen’s Houthi rebels on shipping in the Red Sea.
The resolution passed “demands that the Houthis immediately cease all such attacks, which impede global commerce and undermine navigational rights and freedoms as well as regional peace and security”.
It was adopted after Russia, as well as China, Mozambique and Algeria abstained.
The intensifying attacks have caused shipping companies to bypass the route and instead divert around South Africa’s Cape of Good Hope, significantly adding to journey times and cost.
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Yemen’s Houthi fighters behind Red Sea attacks threaten to disrupt global trade
The UN earlier said it continued “to be very concerned about the situation in the Red Sea, not only because of the situation itself, and the risks that it causes to global trade”.
