Events in the Red Sea are at the center of a telephone conversation between the British and US foreign ministers.

the British Foreign Office issued a statement and announced that British and US Foreign Ministers David Cameron and Antony Blinken condemned the Yemeni National Army's response to the barbaric crimes committed by the Zionist regime in the Gaza Strip and said that attacks against commercial ships heading to Israel in the Red Sea are illegal and unjustified. According to this statement, the UK and US, together with their partners, will attempt to hold the Yemeni National Army responsible for these unlawful attacks. This is despite the fact that the Zionist regime began attacks on the Gaza Strip on October 7, 2023 and has left thousands of martyrs and wounded to date. In recent weeks, in support of the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip, the Yemeni army has attacked several Zionist ships or ships heading to the occupied territories in the Red Sea and the Bab al-Mandab Strait. Yemeni army forces have pledged to continue attacking regime ships or ships heading to the occupied territories in the Red Sea until the Israeli regime stops its attacks on the Gaza Strip. America recently said it had created a naval coalition to counter Yemeni army operations in the Red Sea, but France, Spain and Italy, having confirmed their withdrawal from the coalition, refused to hand over their warships to American command. British Defense Secretary Grant Shepps on Monday said in support of the US coalition that London would not hesitate to take direct action against the Yemeni National Army to prevent attacks on ships. The British defense secretary's announcement comes as experts have long warned of Britain's military shortages, the country's military problems and empty stockpiles, and that the country's armed forces are at their weakest since World War II.