Houthis seize the Galaxy Leader, opening their Red Sea shipping campaign
Armed men rappelled from a helicopter onto the Bahamas-flagged, Japanese-operated cargo ship Galaxy Leader in the southern Red Sea off Yemen and seized it with its 25 crew, targeting it as an Israeli-linked ship over the Gaza war. It was the first of many Houthi attacks on Red Sea shipping.
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