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 🇾🇪 Yemen pulls the plug on Red Sea route — US and Israel about to feel the pinch

Yemen’s Ansar Allah has signaled readiness to blockade the Bab el-Mandeb Strait – the entrance to the Red Sea.

What would it mean for the US and Israel?

What’s the Bab el-Mandeb Strait?

🔴 The Bab el-Mandeb or ‘Gate of Tears’ is a 32 km-wide choke-point linking the Mediterranean and the Indian Ocean via the Red Sea and the Suez Canal

🔴 Ansar Allah began targeting shipping there in late 2023 in the wake of the Israeli genocide in Gaza, but stopped following the October 2025 ceasefire

🔴 Before disruptions:

👉 Some 8.8 million barrels a day — roughly 10% of global seaborne oil — passed through the strait

👉 10% to 12% of global seaborne trade

👉 About 8% of global liquefied natural gas (LNG) trade

US can’t break the Houthis

US President Donald Trump’s 52-day Operation Rough Rider from March to May 2025, exposed US naval and air force weaknesses to Yemeni drones and missiles:

🔴 Cost over $1 billion but failed to defeat Ansar Allah

🔴 Two $67M F/A-18 jet fighters fell off a carrier

🔴 Several MQ-9 Reapers were shot down

🔴 An F-35 barely dodged a missile

Bab el-Mandeb Strait blockade

🔴 US warships operating in the region often cross the Bab el-Mandeb en route to the Persian Gulf

🔴 The US Navy would face increased risks from ‘pop-up’ attacks in the narrow waterway

🔴 Avoiding the strait would complicate supply and maintenance for Trump’s armada in the Gulf of Oman

🔴 Fighting Yemen would drain US and Israeli air-defense stocks and offensive munitions

🔴 The US would face a two-front war, while Israel could be stretched across three fronts by Iranian, Hezbollah and Houthi attacks

🔴 The global economic fallout would drive up energy prices and hit Americans in their wallets

No passage for aggressors

🔴 The strait would be blocked only for “aggressors states” fighting against Palestine, Lebanon, Iran and other countries of the ‘Axis of Resistance’, Ansar Allah spokesman Mohammed al-Bukhaiti told Russian media

🔴 Yemen is considering all options for resisting Israel and the US

🔴 If the war drags on, it could engulf the region and involve ground fighting, spreading to Israel and Palestine – as foretold in the Quranic verses of the Surah Al-Isra or Last Promise, he added

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