{"id":22947,"date":"2026-07-21T13:08:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T08:08:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/?p=22947"},"modified":"2026-07-21T13:08:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T08:08:12","slug":"houthis-announce-maritime-blockade-against-saudi-arabia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/?p=22947","title":{"rendered":"Houthis Announce Maritime Blockade Against Saudi Arabia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Yemen&#8217;s Houthi movement, Ansar Allah, has announced a maritime blockade against Saudi Arabia, saying the move is in response to what it describes as the blockade imposed on Yemen.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson for Ansar Allah claimed that the group was initiating a maritime blockade against Saudi Arabia. According to the spokesperson, the decision was taken in response to the alleged siege on Yemen and the continued closure of Sanaa International Airport.<\/p>\n<p>The spokesperson further claimed that the closure of Sanaa Airport was unacceptable and would be met with reciprocal measures.<\/p>\n<p>The Houthis had previously accused Saudi Arabia of carrying out airstrikes on Sanaa Airport and pledged to respond.<\/p>\n<p>The group later launched missile attacks toward Saudi Arabia, which Saudi authorities said were successfully intercepted.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Reuters reported that the Houthi attacks on Saudi Arabia have raised serious concerns in Pakistan and claimed that Islamabad conveyed to Iran that Saudi Arabia is its &#8220;red line&#8221; and that any attack on the Kingdom would be considered an attack on Pakistan. This claim has not been independently verified.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yemen&#8217;s Houthi movement, Ansar Allah, has announced a maritime blockade against Saudi Arabia, saying the move is in response to what it describes as the blockade imposed on Yemen. A spokesperson for Ansar Allah claimed that the group was initiating a maritime blockade against Saudi Arabia. According to the spokesperson, the decision was taken in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22948,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"googlesitekit_rrm_CAowgLK2DA:productID":"","_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"subtitle":""},"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,46,37],"tags":[13148,13123,149,13150,2856,62,13124,434,9895,7841],"class_list":["post-22947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-latest","category-world","tag-ansar-allah","tag-houthis","tag-iran","tag-maritime-blockade","tag-middle-east","tag-pakistan","tag-reuters","tag-saudi-arabia","tag-world-news","tag-yemen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22947"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22947\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22949,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22947\/revisions\/22949"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/22948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}