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[–] Linkerbaan@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

That one was owned by an israeli businessman.

Israeli officials insisted the ship was British-owned and Japanese-operated. However, ownership details in public shipping databases associated the ship’s owners with Ray Car Carriers, founded by Abraham “Rami” Ungar, who is known as one of the richest men in Israel.

There was also the bio fuel tanker, initially claimed to not go to israel but Italy so everyone said that the Houthis failed again. But then it came out that after the stop in Italy, it had a stop in israel planned.

From the article I linked above:

All ships belonging to the Israeli enemy or that deal with it will become legitimate targets,” the Houthis said.