Iranian-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen will likely continue to conduct hijackings and drone attacks against Israeli-linked ships amid the ongoing war in Gaza, potentially embroiling the United States and/or Israel in retaliatory strikes. Houthi attacks off the coast of Yemen have escalated since Nov. 19, when the Iran-backed rebel group seized an Israeli-owned commercial ship in the Red Sea and took its crew members hostage, subsequently sharing a video of the hijacking to claim responsibility. A suspected Iranian drone, likely a Shahed-136 drone, then attacked an Israeli-owned container ship on Nov. 24 in the Indian Ocean (Houthis have a variant of the Shahed-136 drone called the Waid). A couple of days later, two missiles were fired from Houthi-controlled territory in Yemen after a U.S. Navy vessel responded to an Israeli-linked ship's distress call during an attempted hijacking by Somali pirates. On Nov. 28, an Iranian-made drone flew near the USS...
