Eight Saudi Oil Tankers Blocked by Yemen in Bab-el-Mandeb Escalation

“In line with the ‘siege for siege’ equation and as a result of our armed forces tightening the naval blockade on Saudi enemy oil tankers, 8 Saudi oil tankers were forced to change course towards the Strait of Good Hope,” the servicemen’s spokesman Brigadier Yahya Saree said in a statement on Friday.

Yemen’s armed forces have prevented the passage of eight Saudi oil tankers through the strategic Bab el-Mandeb Strait in line with implementation of Sana’a’s “siege for siege” equation that seeks to retaliate against Riyadh’s blockade on the impoverished Arab Peninsula nation.

“In line with the ‘siege for siege’ equation and as a result of our armed forces tightening the naval blockade on Saudi enemy oil tankers, 8 Saudi oil tankers were forced to change course towards the Strait of Good Hope,” the servicemen’s spokesman Brigadier Yahya Saree said in a statement on Friday.

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Recently, Saudi warplanes attacked Yemen’s lifeline port city of al-Hudaydah, prompting the armed forces to name “escalation for escalation” as the title of the next phase of their confrontation with the kingdom.