The White House said Monday that the U.S. may establish a naval task force to escort commercial ships in the Red Sea, a day after three vessels were struck by missiles fired by Iranian-back Houthis in Yemen.

National security adviser Jake Sullivan said the U.S. has been in active conversations with allies about setting up the escorts though nothing is finalized, describing it as a “natural” response to that sort of incident.

On Sunday, ballistic missiles fired by Yemen’s Houthi rebels struck three commercial ships, while a U.S. warship shot down three drones in self-defense during an hourslong assault, the U.S. military said. It marked an escalation in a series of maritime attacks in the Mideast linked to the Israel-Hamas war.

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      11 months ago

      Do you mean war? If yes, then HAMAS can stop it by releasing all hostages

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        11 months ago

        No I mean the genocide. War implies that there isn’t a massive power imbalance where one side has a standing army and the other has to improvise weaponry in order to not be genocided.

        Stopping this genocide is all on Israel. Ending the Apartheid is on Israel. I am not going to fault the oppressed indigenous people for fighting back against settler-colonialism.