The management of the port of Eilat, in southern Israel, has announced that it intends to lay off half of its 120 employees and protests are planned. Houthi attacks in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden continue for the fifth consecutive month.
He Eilat portin southern Israel, plans to lay off half of its workers due to the lack of activity due to the Houthi attacks in the Red Sea that have affected the commercial routes of global maritime traffic, the federation of Israeli unions has announced. Histadrut.
Houthi attacks in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden continue for the fifth consecutive month. In that period, more than 70 incidents have occurred in the region, including the sinking of the cargo ship. MV Rubymar last March 2.
Histadrutwhich brings together hundreds of thousands of workers, has reported that the port management has announced that it intends to fire half of its 120 employees and protests are planned, according to Israeli media.
Eilat is located at the northern end of the Red Sea and was one of the first ports affected when shipping companies diverted ships to avoid Houthi attacks in Yemen.
In January, the director of the port of Eilat, Gideon Golber, said that activity had been reduced to practically zero because they had not received not a ship since the end of Octoberwhen the Houthi attacks began, in solidarity with Gaza.
Eilat, which primarily handles car imports and potash exports from the Dead Sea, is a very small port compared to Israel’s Mediterranean ports in Haifa and Ashdodwhich handle almost all of the trade of the Zionist State.
But Eilat, which lies next to Jordan’s only coastal access point in Aqaba, offers Israel a gateway to Asia without the need to navigate the Suez Canal.
In recent months, the Houthi rebels have claimed dozens of long-range missile launches into Israeli territory, in addition to attacking several Western commercial ships and even the United States warship. USS Carney in the Red Sea. The Yemenis also confiscated a ship transiting the Red Sea in November and diverted it to a Yemeni port.
The naval operations of the European Union and the United States They continue to shoot down missiles and drones launched from Yemen on a regular basis, but so far they have not made a dent in the ability to continue carrying out these attacks.
Source: Eitb
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