Four More Rescued in Red Sea, as Houthis Vow to Keep Up Attacks

Four more crew members of a cargo ship sunk earlier this week by Yemen’s Houthi militia were rescued in the Red Sea overnight on Wednesday, the European Union’s maritime security mission said, as a Houthi leader vowed to keep up the group’s campaign against shipping in support of the Palestinian cause.

Three Filipino crew members and a Greek security guard from the ship, the Eternity C, were “recovered from the sea” on Wednesday night and Thursday morning, the European mission, Operation Aspides, announced on X, bringing the total number rescued so far to 10. About a dozen remain missing.

The Eternity C is the second vessel the Houthis have sunk this week, a sharp escalation in their 20-month campaign against ships in the waters off Yemen. On Sunday, the Houthis had attacked another cargo vessel, the Magic Seas, forcing its crew to abandon ship.

The attacks, which the group says are in solidarity with Palestinians living through Israel’s war against Hamas in Gaza, ended months of relative calm in the Red Sea. They have also cast doubt on a truce President Trump announced in May, which he said would restore freedom of navigation along the critical shipping route that includes the Suez Canal.

Liberian officials said at least two people were killed when the Eternity C, a Liberian-flagged vessel, was attacked on Monday by several small boats. The Houthi militants released a highly edited video overlaid with dramatic music on Wednesday showing the ship sinking into the sea, though it was unclear precisely when it went down.

The video showed how the Houthis had struck the ship with an unmanned boat and six cruise and ballistic missiles before it sank. The group also claimed to have rescued “a number of the ship’s crew” and transferred them to “a safe location.”