In the narrow waters of the Bab al-Mandeb Strait, where the commerce of nations passes through a corridor barely wide enough for mercy, a cargo ship carrying food was struck twice by ballistic missiles on August 11 — the second volley falling deliberately as rescuers arrived. Six people died, among them crew members from Pakistan and Indonesia and the rescue workers who came to save them, casualties of a conflict they did not choose. The Houthi tactic of targeting the response itself transforms an act of war into something older and darker: the deliberate erasure of the instinct to help. Again
Six killed in Houthi 'double-tap' missile strike on cargo ship in Red Sea
Six people killed (four Pakistani and Indonesian crew members, two rescue workers) and five others injured in the double-tap strike on a commercial vessel.