The company MSC confirmed in a statement that it had suffered an attack on its container ship MSC United VIII in the Red Sea. The Houthis had announced it, speaking of "a targeting operation against a commercial ship", and explaining that they had launched a series of "drones against military targets" in southern Israel. The operations were carried out as a gesture of solidarity with the Palestinians.
«Currently – specified MSC -, all the crew are safe, no one is injured, and a thorough evaluation of the ship is being conducted». The cargo was en route from King Abdullah Port, Saudi Arabia, to Karachi, Pakistan. “Our first priority remains the protection of the lives and safety of our crews and, until their safety can be guaranteed, MSC will continue to divert its ships from transiting through the Suez Canal to the Cape of Good Hope,” the group concluded in its statement.
Meanwhile, the fighting against Hamas in Gaza does not stop, and Israeli bombings continue to hit the Strip heavily. Among the hardest was the one in the Al-Maghazi refugee camp, in the center of the Strip, where around 70 people died, according to the Hamas-led Ministry of Health. The American news agency Associated Press, citing records from the nearby Al-Aqsa hospital, put the death toll at 106. Figures impossible to verify independently.
The WHO reported "heartbreaking" testimonies collected by its teams in the hospital where the wounded from the raid were hospitalized. «The WHO team listened to the heartbreaking stories of medical staff and victims of the suffering inflicted by the explosions», wrote the head of the organization Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on X, according to whom «this latest attack against a community in Gaza shows clearly because an immediate ceasefire is necessary." The Israeli army announced that it had opened an "investigation" into the entire affair, without providing any further information for now.
(Unioneonline/ss)
