{"id":31100,"date":"2023-12-20T19:46:33","date_gmt":"2023-12-21T00:46:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ckms.ca\/?p=31100"},"modified":"2023-12-20T19:46:48","modified_gmt":"2023-12-21T00:46:48","slug":"who-are-the-houthis-and-why-are-they-attacking-ships-in-the-red-sea-cnn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=31100","title":{"rendered":"Who are the Houthis and why are they attacking ships in the Red Sea? | CNN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2023\/12\/19\/middleeast\/red-sea-crisis-explainer-houthi-yemen-israel-intl\/index.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"hoverZoomLink alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/231218113805-galaxy-leader-120523.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"219\" height=\"123\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-size: inherit;\">Yemen\u2019s Iran-backed Houthi rebels are stepping up their strikes on ships in the Red Sea, which they say are revenge against Israel for its military campaign in Gaza.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2023\/12\/19\/middleeast\/red-sea-crisis-explainer-houthi-yemen-israel-intl\/index.html\">Who are the Houthis and why are they attacking ships in the Red Sea? | CNN<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>&#8220;A senior US military official said at least 12 commercial and merchant vessels in the Red Sea had been targeted over the last month, adding the attacks were at a scale not seen in \u201ctwo generations.\u201d&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>I wrote&#x2b07;&#xfe0f;while reading&#x2b06;&#xfe0f;:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>the red sea is becoming a very dangerous place. last few days have seen >20 drones from yemen\/houthi?, all most shot down, but one ? ship hit (non military), and nw mmore heading there. already have 2 usa carrier groups there? have seen allegeded iranian chasing us heliocpters bnack to cvn?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yemen\u2019s Iran-backed Houthi rebels are stepping up their strikes on ships in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[282],"tags":[1884,59,1883],"class_list":["post-31100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-houthi","tag-middle-east","tag-red-sea","wpcat-282-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31100"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31104,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31100\/revisions\/31104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}