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On October 18, 2024, Yahya Sare'e, spokesperson for Yemen's Iran-backed Ansar Allah Movement (the Houthis), published a statement in English and Arabic claiming responsibility for a drone attack against the commercial ship Megalopolis in the Arabian Sea, stating that "the operation has successfully achieved its objectives." Sare'e asserted that "the ship was targeted owing to the violation of ban decision of access to the ports of occupied Palestine by the company that owns the ship."
The spokesman praised the mujahideen in Gaza and Lebanon, stressing that "the martyrdom of the great leader Yahya Sinwar will only increase the resistance and the determination of all the free people in the world to continue on the path of liberation and victory."
He added that as the group enters its second year of supporting "the battle of the Promised conquest and the Holy jihad," the Yemeni armed forces will continue to impose "a naval blockade on the Israeli enemy," target ships linked or heading to Israel, and target "the Israeli enemy with missiles and drones, and these operations will not stop except for stopping the aggression and lifting the siege on the Gaza Strip and stopping the aggression on Lebanon."
On October 14, the group released a video summarizing its military and other activities since the start of the Israel-Hamas war. The video claims that the Houthis launched 1,000 missiles, drones, and USVs, and carried attacks against targets within Israel and 193 "enemy ships."
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