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The Red Sea crisis is an ongoing military standoff that began on 19 October 2023, when the Iran-backed Houthi movement within Yemen launched a barrage of missiles and armed drones at Israel. The Houthis have staged multiple seizures of civilian-operated cargo ships sailing near the Yemeni coast, and have claimed any Israel-linked shipping as a target, although multiple vessels with no apparent link to Israel have also been attacked. Houthis said they will not stop until Israel ceases its war on Hamas. The crisis in the Red Sea is a part of a broader proxy war between the United States and Iran.Operating against Yemen's internationally recognized government, the Houthi movement's militants have controlled a considerable swath of the country's coastal territory along the Red Sea since 2014. Shortly after the beginning of the Israel–Hamas war, many of the Hamas-allied Houthis' missile and drone attacks were intercepted by Israel's Arrow anti-ballistic missiles; others fell short of their targets or were intercepted by the Israeli Air Force, the United States Navy, and the French Navy. Houthi militants have also fired on various countries' merchant vessels in the Red Sea, and particularly in the Bab-el-Mandeb—a chokepoint of the global economy as it serves as the southern maritime gateway to the Suez Canal of Egypt. To avoid Houthi attacks, hundreds of commercial vessels have been rerouted to sail around South Africa.The Houthis' militant activities in the Red Sea have incurred a military response from a number of countries; the United States, which assembled Operation Prosperity Guardian to protect the Red Sea shipping route, has bombed the Houthi-controlled parts of Yemen and attacked Houthi vessels in the Red Sea. Since 12 January, the United States and the United Kingdom have headed the coalition's series of missile strikes against the Houthis, while other countries have begun independently patrolling the waters near Yemen.