Dramatic footage of plumes of smoke billowing from a cargo ship shows an incident in 2017, contrary to social media posts that falsely linked it to a Huthi attack in the Arabian Sea, as the rebels targeted commercial shipping following the outbreak of the Gaza war. The video shows a fire that engulfed a massive […]
A satellite image of an aircraft carrier has been altered to add a crater to its flight deck and then shared in social media posts that presented it as evidence of damage caused by Yemen’s Huthi rebels. The posts, viewed millions of times, surfaced after the Huthis claimed they had launched a missile attack on the […]
A video circulating on social media purports to show a ship ablaze near Haifa in Israel after being targeted by Yemen’s Huthi rebels and the Islamic Resistance of Iraq. This is false; the clip is from 2019 and depicts gas tankers that caught fire during a fuel transfer. “Yemen and Iraq successfully targeted two Isr*aeli […]
Yemen’s Huthi rebels have attacked vessels in the Red Sea with drones and missiles following the outbreak of the Gaza war. A photo of containers balanced precariously on a cargo ship that surfaced in posts about the strikes, however, is unrelated. The New Zealand navy published the picture in a Facebook post about a ship […]
Social media posts purport to show footage of the Rubymar, a British-registered cargo vessel, sinking off the Arabian Peninsula after an air strike in 2024 from Huthi rebels in Yemen. This is false; the videos depict the destruction of different ships in 2013 and 2020 in other locations. “British ship RubyMar sunk by Yemen!” says […]
A photo of a burning ship has circulated in reports about an explosion near the Crimean Peninsula in January 2019, contradicting multiple social media posts from January 2024 that claim it shows a vessel hit by Yemen’s Huthi rebels in the Red Sea. The Huthis began targeting Red Sea shipping in November 2023, as a […]
Yemen’s Huthi rebels hit a US-owned cargo vessel with a missile on Monday, the US military said, heightening fears for the volatile region after repeated attacks on shipping triggered American and British strikes. The Marshall Islands-flagged Gibraltar Eagle suffered a fire on board but no casualties and remained seaworthy, the US Central Command said, in […]