(Reuters) – An incident has occurred in the Bab al-Mandab Strait according to reports and both the United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) agency and British maritime security company Ambrey are investigating, they said in advisory notes on Thursday.
The Iran-aligned Houthi group has sought to support their Palestinian ally Hamas in the war in Gaza by firing missiles at Israel and threatening shipping in the busy Bab al-Mandab Strait, which sits next to Yemen at the southern entrance to the Red Sea.
(Reporting by Ahmed Elimam and Jana Choukeir; editing by Christina Fincher and Jason Neely)
