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Agence France-Presse

Germany said on Saturday it will send a new frigate to the Red Sea in August to help secure maritime traffic, disrupted for months due to attacks by Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi rebels.
The Hamburg will replace the Hessen, which left the zone on Saturday, Defence Minister Boris Pistorius said.
The Hessen had been deployed in the area on February 23 as part of the European Union’s Aspides mission to protect ships in the area.
The statement said the Hamburg had escorted 27 merchant ships in the intervention zone and had on four occasions repulsed drone and missile attacks by the Houthis.
It had around 240 military personnel on board.


Houthi rebels said on Thursday they have attacked almost 100 vessels in the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden in months of strikes.
They began attacking ships in the Gulf of Aden and the Red Sea in November, a campaign they say is intended as a show of support for Palestinians in the war-battered Gaza Strip.
The attacks in the vital trade route have been met with retaliatory strikes by US and British forces since January.
Israel’s close ally the United States set up a multinational task force late last year to “protect” Red Sea shipping.


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The Hamburg will replace the Hessen that was deployed in the area on February 23 as part of an EU mission to protect ships in the area
Yemen’s Iran-based Houthi rebels have attacked almost 100 vessels in the vital trading route of the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden in months of strikes


Yemen’s Iran-based Houthi rebels have attacked almost 100 vessels in the vital trading route of the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden in months of strikes.
