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A video circulating on social media purports to point out a ship ablaze close to Haifa in Israel after being focused by Yemen’s Huthi rebels and the Islamic Resistance of Iraq. That is false; the clip is from 2019 and depicts gasoline tankers that caught fireplace throughout a gas switch.
“Yemen and Iraq efficiently focused two Isr*aeli ships carrying mili*tary gear for the Isr*ael within the port of Ha*ifa,” says a June 6, 2024 post sharing the footage on X.
The declare unfold elsewhere on X and Fb, together with in Thai, Arabic, Chinese, Spanish, French and Indonesian.
Since November 2023, the Huthis have attacked delivery across the Crimson Sea and Gulf of Aden. They are saying their actions are in solidarity with Palestinians within the Gaza Strip, the place Israel has been at struggle with the militant group Hamas since October 7.
US and British forces have responded with strikes in opposition to the rebels, who’ve since declared American and British pursuits to be targets as properly. The assaults have prompted some delivery firms to detour round southern Africa to keep away from the Crimson Sea, a route that usually carries about 12 p.c of world commerce.
The Huthis claimed in early June 2024 that they and the Islamic Resistance of Iraq, a unfastened alliance of pro-Iran teams, collectively launched two assaults on ships carrying navy gear in Israel’s Haifa port.
However the Israeli navy instructed multiple media outlets the declare was false (archived here and here) — and the video spreading on-line just isn’t latest.
A reverse image and keyword search uncovered the video, credited to Reuters, in a January 22, 2019 Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty report (archived here).
Two business ships — the Maestro and Kandy, working below the Tanzanian flag — caught fire January 21, 2019 close to the Kerch Strait, which connects the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov off the coast of Crimea.
The fireplace broke out as one vessel transferred gas to the opposite, driving each crews to leap overboard. Fourteen folks have been killed.
AFP has debunked different misinformation concerning the Israel-Hamas struggle here.
