This morning all the Middle Eastern media released a letter of Yusuf Hassan al-Madani, Chief of Staff of the Houthi militia, addressed to the Qassam Brigades of Hamas, in which it states that the militiamen are closely monitoring developments in the Gaza Strip and that, if Israeli troops retake the attacks in the area, the Houthis will reinstate the ban on navigation to Israeli ships in the Red Sea and the Arabian Sea.

The letter, therefore, implicitly states the cessation of Houthi attacks on ships transiting the region, accidents that have been underway since the end of 2023 that have led to the almost all shipping companies that used the route through the Suez Canal for their maritime services intercontinental and regional routes to divert ships to the route that circumnavigates Africa rounding the Cape of Good Hope.