The Iran-backed Houthi terrorist group has hit at least four undersea internet cables, impacting communications between Europe and Asia, Israeli news reports suggest. “Four underwater communications cables between Saudi Arabia and Djibouti have been struck out of commission in recent months, presumably as a result of attacks by Yemen’s Iranian-backed Houthi rebels,” the Jerusalem Post reported February 26.
Internet users in India and the Gulf states will be impacted most from the disruption. “Most of the immediate harm will be absorbed by the Gulf states and India,” the newspaper added.
The news of the attack on underwater cables comes as Houthi terrorists wage a “maritime jihad” against Israeli and Western-owned ships in the Red Sea, Gulf of Aden, and Arabian Sea. The missile and drone strikes on the international shipping were intensified after the October 7 massacre of innocent Israelis by Hamas, an Islamic terrorist group allied with the Houthis.
In January, the Biden administration placed the Houthis back on the terrorist list, finally bringing itself in line with the decision taken by President Donald Trump. Meanwhile, the Iranian proxy terrorist organization has mutated from a Yemen-based jihadist group to one with pan-Islamic ambitions.
“Houthis hit submarine communications cables,” by Assaf Gilead, Globes – Israel Business News, February 26, 2024:
Three months after the Houthis began attacking merchant ships, the Yemenite rebels have carried out another one of their threats. “Globes” has learned that four submarine communication cables have been damaged in the Red Sea between Jeddah in Saudi Arabia and Djibouti in East Africa.
According to the reports, these are cables from the companies AAE-1, Seacom, EIG and TGN. This is causing serious disruption of Internet communications between Europe and Asia, with the main damage being felt in the Gulf countries and India.
Estimates are that the damage to communications activities is significant but not critical because other cables pass through the same region linking Asia, Africa and Europe that have not been hit. The repair of such a large number of underwater cables may take at least eight weeks according to estimates and involve exposure to risk from the Houthi terror organization. The telecommunications companies will be forced to look for companies that will agree to carry out the repair work and probably pay them a high risk premium.
EIG (European India Gateway) connects Southern Europe with Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Djibouti, the UAE and India. The underwater cable was laid by Tyco arm Alcatel-Lucent at a cost of $700 million and was the first cable stretching from the UK to India. Shares in EIG are held by a consortium including AT&T, Saudi Telecom, Verizon, and India’s Bharat Sanchar.
Walter Sieruk says
About that dangerous and deadly jihad group ,the Houthis . It was reported in the newspaper THE EPOCH TIMES February 21-27 page A19 that “The Houthis repeatedly targets American assets, shutting down down the Red Sea . In response, the Biden administration could only muster pinprick strikes and faux terror redesignation. The Houthi aggression continues.”
That article also reveals that the Houthi is a proxy jihad entity of Iran.
Of course that despicable fiend ,Joe Biden still strives to do everything that he is able to do to uphold and support that hostile Anti -America and anti-Israel Islamic tyrannical regime of Iran.
Walter Sieruk says
Those malice-filled vicious and deadly savage jihadists of the Houthis are nothing but stooges of that “mullah regime” of Iran. Even though they tools of those Muslim tyrants in power of Iran, they’re nevertheless very dangerous. Therefore, the only fitting way that they should be dealt with is by a very strong power of military might. Not by the token half-hearts strike, that Joe Biden ordered.
In contrast to that fool Biden, the wise words of Thomas Jefferson are the appropriate and right way to handle the menacing problem the Houthis jihadists.
For Mr. Jefferson had, rightly, declared, “With every barbarous people…force is law.”
jay sharpe says
Why not just level the place as an object lesion to the rest of the idiots in the ares.
WPM says
The reason Joe Biden will not just level the place is he needs the American Moslem(jihad) vote .
࿗Infidel࿘ says
There ought to be, if there ain’t already, trans-Pacific cable lines running from the Americas across the Pacific to Asia, around the Straits of Malacca to Burma, India and on to the Middle East. So that they can get their internet w/o going across the Red Sea
Ian Harris says
How are the houthis able to damage undersea cables? Firing rockets is one thing, but getting to undersea cables requires specialised equipment and training which can only come form the axis of evil-Iran.