{"id":8065,"date":"2025-04-21T01:42:22","date_gmt":"2025-04-21T01:42:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/?p=8065"},"modified":"2025-04-21T01:42:22","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T01:42:22","slug":"video-shows-destruction-of-houthis-ras-isa-fuel-port","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/?p=8065","title":{"rendered":"Video Shows Destruction of Houthis&#8217; Ras Isa Fuel Port"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    Video Shows Destruction of Houthis&#8217; Ras Isa Fuel Port<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>New on-scene footage from the Houthi-controlled\u00a0port of\u00a0Ras Isa\u00a0shows that last week&#8217;s\u00a0airstrike destroyed not only the installation, but also dozens of the commercial tanker trucks that served it. The imagery suggests that most of northwestern Yemen will have difficulty obtaining fuel for the foreseeable future, either for military or civilian purposes.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"340\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/79JlxaHRubE\" width=\"600\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Imagery released on social media shows that the attack destroyed about eight storage tanks and multiple truck marshalling areas. One product tanker remained Med-moored at the quayside after the attack, while the port&#8217;s finger piers had emptied out. The quays have impact craters, but the piers do not appear to have been targeted.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Following last night\u2019s bombings of the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/RasIsa?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#RasIsa<\/a> fuel terminal in western <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Yemen?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Yemen<\/a> by US Armed Forces, we have now secured a hi-resolution SkySat image by <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/planet?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@planet<\/a> which we ordered last night. It shows the scale of the destruction. On the western part of the shoreline, the storage\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/iDWkjfozHM\">pic.twitter.com\/iDWkjfozHM<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 TankerTrackers.com, Inc. (@TankerTrackers) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TankerTrackers\/status\/1913273259874795740?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 18, 2025<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Houthi sources reported the death toll from the strikes at about 80 people, with 150-170 more wounded &#8211; likely reflecting the number of drivers at the tanker truck marshalling areas, noted TankerTrackers.com. Burned-out commercial passenger buses at the scene could also have been occupied.\u00a0<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-media-max-width=\"560\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">America&#8217;s targeting of Yemen&#8217;s Ras Isa Fuel port (Civilian Infrastructure) raising a number of martyrs and injuring dozens of workers and employees of the port. (Al Masirah) <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/sXZjiRTqB9\">https:\/\/t.co\/sXZjiRTqB9<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/85vWKU4Fxb\">pic.twitter.com\/85vWKU4Fxb<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 MenchOsint (@MenchOsint) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MenchOsint\/status\/1912993552000311346?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 17, 2025<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Rights organizations (and the UN) have protested the U.S. government&#8217;s decision to strike the port: it\u00a0was\u00a0one of the Houthi organization&#8217;s main sources of revenue and energy, but it also served the civilian population. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Echoing the Secretary-General, I am gravely concerned about the impact of the US airstrikes in and around Ras Isa port on civilians, particularly truck drivers and port workers, as well as on civilian infrastructure,&#8221; said UN Special Envoy for Yemen Hans Grundberg. &#8220;The cycle of attacks on the Red Sea by Ansar Allah and US airstrikes in response jeopardizes peace efforts and risks drawing Yemen further into the regional conflict.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Additional U.S. strikes were reported in the Farwa neighborhood in the Houthi capital of Sana&#8217;a, Yemen, with further deceased and injured personnel. Two carriers are stationed off Yemen&#8217;s coast for round-the-clock bombardment operations, and multiple\u00a0targeted strikes were reported across Houthi-controlled areas Saturday and Sunday. The commanding officer of USS <em>Harry S. Truman <\/em>has confirmed ongoing operations (below).\u00a0<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Back at it. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/muj1xg42Ei\">pic.twitter.com\/muj1xg42Ei<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Chowdah Hill (@ChowdahHill) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChowdahHill\/status\/1913910089171222721?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 20, 2025<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.maritime-executive.com\/article\/video-shows-destruction-of-houthis-ras-isa-fuel-port\">Go to maritime executive<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Video Shows Destruction of Houthis&#8217; Ras Isa Fuel Port \u00a0 New on-scene footage from the Houthi-controlled\u00a0port of\u00a0Ras Isa\u00a0shows that last week&#8217;s\u00a0airstrike destroyed not only the installation, but also dozens of the commercial tanker trucks that served it. The imagery suggests that most of northwestern Yemen will have difficulty obtaining fuel for the foreseeable future, either [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-8065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-maritime-executive","tag-maritime-executive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8065"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8065\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}