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Yeah.

It's very strange to hear this described as "nonviolent" when 1), Naval Blockades are an act of war, and 2) the press of the Houthi movement says they used missiles and drone strikes to do so. It's also decidedly contested between parties if those ships are even related to Israel, at all? Like some were bound from saudi arabia to pakistan, and one of the "Israeli" ships they've captured belongs to the Nippon Yusen shipping concern, which has enlisted the japanese government to help negotiate its release - because they're japanese... I don't really have a stake in the Yemeni civil war, if you want to argue that they're noble freedom fighters, you can probably construct an argument for that. But can we at least level with some more of the reality? Bereft of that, by narrowing things down into these cosy and simple stories, we arrive at propoganda.

Yeah.

My choice of Al Jazeera as a source is specific because they are an anti-Israeli news group. And they are clear- the Houthi actions are violent.