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ALMUKARA, Yemen: The EU mission in the Red Sea, known as EUNAVFOR Apides, said Sunday it has protected more than 100 ships while navigating the vital trade route and shot down more than a dozen Houthi missiles and drones in the past three years. It was announced that. Several months.

In a post on X to mark three months since the start of the operation, the EU mission, which currently consists of five naval units and 1,000 personnel from 19 contributing countries, said the force will carry 12 unmanned aircraft, one ship He said they destroyed an unmanned boat and one drone. The Houthis have launched four ballistic missiles from areas they control in Yemen, protecting 120 commercial ships since February.

“Three months have passed since the launch of ASPIDES, and it is a great day for freedom of navigation. Three months of challenges and great achievements. We will continue our mission in full compliance with the law,” EUNAVFOR Aspides said.

On February 19, the EU announced the launch of EUNAVFOR Apides, a military operation in the Red Sea to protect international maritime traffic from Houthi attacks.

At the same time, the Philippine Immigration and Labor Department announced on Sunday that 23 nationals aboard an oil ship attacked by Houthi militias in the Red Sea on Saturday were safe.

“DMW is coordinating closely with international maritime authorities, shipping companies, and local manning agencies on the status of vessels carrying Filipino seafarers operating in high-risk and war-like areas in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden. “There are,” DMW said. This was said in a statement carried by the Philippine News Agency.

For seven months, the Houthis have fired hundreds of ballistic missiles, drones and unmanned boats at commercial and naval ships along international trade routes off Yemen’s coast, including in the Red Sea.

The Houthis say their attacks are aimed at forcing Israel to end the war in Gaza and allow humanitarian supplies to be delivered to the Palestinian territory.

In March, the Houthis fired a missile at a ship in the Red Sea, killing three civilian sailors, including two Filipinos.

Many international shipping companies have directed ships to avoid the Red Sea and other routes off the coast of Yemen, opting for longer and more expensive routes through Africa.

Meanwhile, Yemeni human rights defenders say a man held by the Houthis for the past seven years has died as a result of abuse in Houthi custody, making him the latest victim of torture in a Houthi detention facility. It was announced that it had become.

On Saturday, the Houthis informed the family of Najeed Hassan Farea in Taiz through the Yemeni Red Crescent that their son had died in their custody, but did not explain how he died.

In February 2017, the Houthis abducted Falea after raiding her village and home in al-Taziya district, preventing her from contacting her family and denying her information about where she was being held.

Esraq al-Maqtari, a human rights activist in Taiz who has been in contact with Falea’s family, told Arab News that the Houthis had brutally tortured the man and that his family had been unable to find information about him after years of being denied information since his detention. He said he was stunned to hear of the death.

“He was denied the right to communication, the right to know his fate and the right to medical care, which appears to have contributed to his death,” she said, adding that since the beginning of this year It added that there were three cases of prisoner deaths as a result of torture in Houthi prisoners.