News - Yemen: The European mission Aspides, tasked with protecting Zionist navigation, announced that the vessel MINERVAGRACHT, which recently came under attack in the Gulf of Aden, is now drifting at sea after being set ablaze during the strike.

The mission noted that the ship’s crew was evacuated without casualties, adding that the rescue and evacuation operations were successfully carried out despite difficult maritime conditions.

This announcement is seen as an admission of failure, as the European mission has proven unable to provide any protection for Zionist navigation or ships violating Yemen’s blockade order, reducing its role to little more than evacuating crews rather than countering Yemen’s growing naval capabilities and operations.

Activists and international media circulated video footage showing the vessel sinking and its crew being evacuated by helicopter.

These developments follow the Yemeni naval forces’ strike on the ship with a cruise missile in the Gulf of Aden, after it violated the ban on entering ports of occupied Palestine.

The Yemeni Armed Forces vowed to continue naval operations and enforce a navigation ban on Israeli-linked vessels across the Red Sea, Arabian Sea, Bab al-Mandeb, and the Gulf of Aden until the war on Gaza ends and the blockade is lifted.