🚨🚨Houthi forces seize a critical island that controls world trade‼️
Yemen's Houthis have seized Mayyun Island, also known as Perim, completing their push to take control of the Bab al-Mandab strait area, a local official and eyewitnesses told AFP. Armed Houthi fighters arrived by boat after government forces withdrew yesterday. Mayyun divides the key Red Sea strait into two shipping lanes.
Yemen's Houthis have seized Mayyun Island, also known as Perim, completing their push to take control of the Bab al-Mandab strait area, a local official and eyewitnesses told AFP. Armed Houthi fighters arrived by boat after government forces withdrew yesterday. Mayyun divides the key Red Sea strait into two shipping lanes.
