"All actions taken by the Yemeni Armed Forces are linked to lifting the siege of Gaza and halting the [Israeli] aggression against it," Mohammed Abdul-Salam said on Sunday.
"If you want to stop Yemen's naval operations against the Israeli enemy, you must lift the blockade on Gaza, and food and medicine must be allowed in," he added.
Stressing that "the Red Sea is safe except for ships associated with the Israeli enemy," Abdul-Salam also praised a decision taken by a Chinese company to stop sending its ships to the occupying entity's ports.
At least four international shipping firms have already suspended transit through the Red Sea's internationally important Bab al-Mandab strait, citing the potential of Yemeni attacks.
This has reportedly inflicted three billion dollars in damage on the Israeli economy by increasing the price of the goods that are imported to the occupied territories three times.
Yemen's Armed Forces have warned that they will target all the vessels that would use the country's territorial waters in the Red Sea and the Arabian Sea to reach Israeli ports.
Around 19,000 people have been killed in the Israeli regime's onslaught on Gaza that began on October 7 following an operation by the territory's Resistance movements, dubbed Operation al-Aqsa Storm.
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11:52 - 2023/12/18
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