DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — In just days, Yemen’s Houthi rebels have begun a new, more violent campaign of attacks targeting ships in the Red Sea, sinking two of them and killing some of their crew.

You can’t let them revert back to the shadow war cost free. We got to an overt war because they never were made to feel the price of the covert war,’

The Houthis attacked a commercial ship for the first time in approximately seven months, causing the crew aboard to abandon ship, the Yemen-based group announced via social media Monday. MV Magic Seas,