Yemen live information: US-owned ship hit by Houthi missile near Red Sea

The worldwide Islamist political group Hizb ut-Tahrir needs to be banned as a terrorist organisation, the Home Secretary mentioned, as he branded it “antisemitic” and warned it “promotes and encourages terrorism”.

James Cleverly’s proposal will likely be debated in Parliament this week and, if accepted, the ban would come into pressure on Friday making Hizb ut-Tahrir the eightieth organisation to be proscribed within the UK.

Founded in 1953, Hizb ut-Tahrir is a pan-Islamic fundamentalist group which has been banned in a number of Arab and Asian nations, together with China, in addition to in Germany. Austria banned symbols of the group in 2021.

With headquarters in Lebanon, the group additionally operates in at the very least 32 nations together with the UK, United States, Canada and Australia, with a “long-term goal of establishing a Caliphate ruled under Islamic law”, the Home Office mentioned.

Mr Cleverly mentioned: “Hizb ut-Tahrir is an antisemitic organisation that actively promotes and encourages terrorism, including praising and celebrating the appalling October 7 attacks.

“Proscribing this terrorist group will ensure that anyone who belongs to and invites supports for them will face consequences. It will curb Hizb ut-Tahrir’s ability to operate as it currently does.”

The group had described Hamas as “heroes” – which “constitutes promoting and encouraging terrorism” – and has a “history of praising and celebrating attacks against Israel and attacks against Jews more widely”, the Home Office mentioned.

Houthi rebels mentioned they might increase their targets to incorporate US and British ships as an anti-ship ballistic missile struck a US container ship about 100 miles off the Gulf of Aden, the US army confirmed.

The assault on the Gibraltar Eagle, later claimed by the Houthis, additional escalates tensions gripping the Red Sea after American-led strikes on the rebels.

British and American ships had grow to be “legitimate targets”, Nasruldeen Amer, a spokesman for the Houthis, instructed Al Jazeera on Monday night.

“The ship doesn’t necessarily have to be heading to Israel for us to target it, it is enough for it to be American,” mentioned Mr Amer.

“The United States is on the verge of losing its maritime security.”

The Houthis have beforehand mentioned they might solely goal Israeli ships or these en path to Israel.

The United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) organisation has suggested vessels to transit with warning after a vessel reported being encircled within the Red Sea earlier right now.

A small craft circled a vessel within the Red Sea about 57 nautical miles northwest of Eritrea’s Assab, forcing the ship to fireside warning pictures.

The vessel and crew have been reported protected and are continuing to their subsequent port after safety personnel on the ship “fired warning shots and small craft departed,” UKMTO mentioned in an advisory be aware.

The shadow cupboard is extra deeply divided than it seems. Labour remains to be topic to much less media scrutiny than the Conservatives, regardless of the widespread assumption that Keir Starmer will grow to be prime minister this 12 months.

Most Labour MPs are additionally extra disciplined than most Tory MPs as a result of they will really feel election victory inside their grasp, whereas the Tories are both fed up or have given up, and so are happier to be impolite about one another in personal and in public.

As ever in politics, Labour’s divisions are a combination of the private and the ideological, and overseas coverage is likely one of the hidden fractures threatening the foundations of an incoming authorities.

United Nations’ help chief Martin Griffiths mentioned that US-led strikes in Yemen are a “serious consequence” of Israel’s warfare in Gaza.

Mr Griffths mentioned he’s not blaming any aspect however it’s disappointing to see the prospect of peace in Yemen “snatched away” from folks, in keeping with CNN.

“But it’s one more terrible consequence. And it is a really serious consequence of the war in Gaza,” he mentioned.

Iran’s Revolutionary Guards fired numerous ballistic missiles on the “spy headquarters” of Israel in Iraq’s semi-autonomous Kurdistan area, in keeping with Iranian state media.

“In response to the recent atrocities of the Zionist regime, causing the killing of commanders of the Guards and the Axis of Resistance … one of the main Mossad espionage headquarters in Iraq’s Kurdistan region was destroyed with ballistic missiles,” the guards mentioned in a press release.

The elite pressure vowed to avenge the “last drops of martyrs’ blood”, referring to the killing of three members of the Guards in Syria final month, together with a senior Guards commander, who had served as army advisers there.

The forces additionally “fired a number of ballistic missiles in Syria and destroyed the perpetrators of terrorist operations” in Iran, together with the Islamic State.

The US State Department condemned the assaults near Erbil, calling them “reckless”.

But officers mentioned no US services have been focused and there have been no US casualties.

The assaults got here after the Houthis launched their largest assault on Red Sea transport, one among 27 such assaults since 19 November.

Officials mentioned that 21 missiles and drones have been fired at warships and business vessels near the Bab al-Mandab Strait earlier this week, the southern bottleneck of the Red Sea, with US and UK warships blowing them out of the sky.

Here is what we all know thus far:

New satellite tv for pc pictures present the earlier than and after of the Houthi websites hit by US-led airstrikes, which come because the group regularly disrupt cargo within the Red Sea.

The Houthis declare to be concentrating on Red Sea vessels that are both owned by or heading to Israel, in assist for Hamas in Gaza.

The group have already promised each the UK and US will face ‘retaliation’ for this week’s strikes, which they are saying has killed 5 and injured at the very least six.

Rishi Sunak has been accused of utilizing an “Islamophobic trope” after he requested Labour’s Zarah Sultana to “call on Hamas and the Houthis to de-escalate the situation”.

Ms Zultana posted on X: “This is an Islamophobic trope – as if by being Muslim, I am responsible for Hamas and the Houthis – and then Tory MP Andrew Percy says: ‘Too many people give a free pass to the terrorists who perpetrated the worst murder of Jews *and we’ve just seen an example of that’

“Implying I had just “given a free pass to the terrorists”, which is categorically unfaithful – I’ve repeatedly condemned the October 7 assault – and once more is an Islamophobic trope: with none grounds, suggesting I’m supportive of Hamas.

“I then made a Point of Order, highlighting what he had said. Percy replied saying he hadn’t said that – you can see for yourself in the video – and that he “wouldn’t engage in this silliness”. So that’s x2 Islamophobic tropes + 1 gaslighting?

“Just another day as a Muslim MP.”

The US was warned in regards to the risks Houthi rebels posed to the Middle East earlier than Israel’s warfare with Hamas however “they didn’t do anything”.

Vice president of Yemen’s UN-recognised authorities Aidarus al-Zubaidi mentioned he met with American and British officers in September and instructed them that the Iran-backed militant group was rearming throughout a pause in preventing in its warfare with a coalition led by Saudi Arabia.

“They wrote everything down,” he mentioned. “They didn’t do something.