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Commercial traffic through the Red Sea chokepoint linking Europe to Asia is down by over 40 percent thanks to the Houthis campaign of ship hijackings and missile and drone attacks in solidarity with Palestinians amid the Gaza crisis. A month-long series of US and British missile strikes inside Yemen has shown no signs of slowing the militia down.
Russia and China on Wednesday accused the United States and Britain of illegally attacking military sites used by Yemen’s Houthi rebels to launch missiles at commercial vessels in the Red Sea, disrupting global shipping.
US deputy ambassador Robert Wood and UK Ambassador Barbara Woodward