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Well as far as understand it's to do with the strait by Yeman, Bab al-mandab. My very limited "knowledge" is from a very "in the background while doing chores" series of YouTube videos.
Rockets have been fired from Yeman at ships passing through the strait. Countermeasure missile things exsist to stop ships from being exploded but they cost a literal million dollars a go. A large % of oil going to Europe passes through there or has to go south around the Horn of Africa. Either way is beacoup bucks so the texts were about killing the guy that was getting folks together to fire the rockets.
I didn't gleam much relevent beyond that.
Thanks. Now I know what to seach for
The Houthis have launched dozens of missile and drone attacks on commercial ships.
They have sunk two vessels, seized a third and killed four crew members.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-67614911.amp
Yeah, lots of violence begets violence. Thanks for the link, I gave it a quick scan, will have a read later on.