Yemeni sources say the Houthis are re-bombarding the port of Mokha with ballistic missiles, Sky News Arabia reports

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Strikes of this kind on Yemeni Red Sea ports sit within a long-running pattern in which Houthi missile and drone attacks target both Saudi-coalition-aligned infrastructure and, in more recent phases, commercial shipping lanes further south. Mokha is a secondary port compared with Hodeidah or Aden, but its position on the Bab el-Mandeb approaches means renewed bombardment there keeps the security premium on the strait itself in play rather than signalling any shift in the conflict's centre of gravity. The established transmission channel runs through freight, war-risk insurance and rerouting decisions around the Cape rather than through any direct supply loss, and tanker and container markets have historically priced escalation in this theatre faster than crude itself. Attribution and sourcing matter: initial reports via regional broadcasters of this kind have on past occasions been revised in scale, so confirmation from shipping trackers or coalition statements is the usual next checkpoint. Worth observing are any follow-on claims of responsibility, whether the strike tempo extends to vessels rather than fixed port infrastructure, and the response pattern from the naval coalition operating in the area. As a single-source field report, the signal is directional on risk premium rather than on physical flows.

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