Houthi Red Sea Attacks Threaten Saudi Arabia's Hormuz Bypass Route

Yemen's Houthis struck two Saudi vessels in the Red Sea and turned back ten more, disrupting the Bab El Mandeb Strait — a narrow passage between the Arabian Peninsula and Africa. Saudi Arabia had rerouted oil through its East-West Pipeline to bypass Iran's closure of the Strait of Hormuz. Now Houthi attacks menace that pipeline's export terminal at Yanbu' Al-Bahr, creating a dual-chokepoint crisis.