North Red Sea attacks A new high risk area tightens the noose on shipping linked to Israel

Shipping traffic linked to Israel has suffered a new blow in the Red Sea after the Yemeni armed forces expanded the high-risk area for these ships through what has become clear to be a new escalation path launched with two qualitative operations targeting two Israeli-linked vessels off the coasts of “Yanbu” and “Jeddah” in Saudi Arabia, which forced the maritime security sector to reconsider its assessments of the risks of the Red Sea for these ships.
Derar Al-Tayeb, Al-Khabar Al-Yemeni:
In recent weeks, “Ansar Allah” leader Abdul-Malik Al-Houthi had referred to the implementation of naval operations in the far north of the Red Sea, the details of which were not disclosed by the Yemeni armed forces. However, last Monday, it was announced that the “Scarlet Ray” owned by Israeli businessman Idan Ofer, had been targeted by a ballistic missile that achieved a precise hit, which came as a surprise given the ship’s location off “Yanbu,” Saudi Arabia, in the northern Red Sea. The impact of this surprise was compounded by another attack targeting the “MSC Abi” off Jeddah the following day.
Prior to these attacks, maritime security and insurance companies had identified the southern Red Sea (off the western coast of Yemen and up to Bab Al-Mandeb and the Gulf of Aden) as a high-risk area for ships on the Yemeni target list, given that most of the destructive attacks were concentrated in this area. This has led to repeated increases in insurance premiums for these ships, reaching 2% of the ship’s value for each crossing of this area last year.
Although previous attacks by the Yemeni armed forces have not been strictly confined to this area, with operations carried out in the Arabian Sea and even in the Indian Ocean, as well as joint operations with the Iraqi resistance