Senior Houthi leader Mohammad Ali al-Houthi offered to return a British-owned cargo ship abandoned due to damage in exchange for more aid being sent to Gaza, in an X post on Sunday. The ship was abandoned last week after being struck by a Houthi missile, NBC News reported.“The sunken British ship could be towed in exchange for bringing relief trucks into Gaza. This is an offer that can be studied,” al-Houthi wrote.بالامكان أن تسحب السفينة البريطانية الغارقة مقابل إدخال شاحنات للاغاثة إلى غزة هذا عرض قابل للدراسة— محمد علي الحوثي (@Moh_Alhouthi) February 24, 2024The captured ship has created several environmental concerns, as it is now leaking oil off Yemen’s coast.

The United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) agency said on Sunday that it had received a report of a small fast boat behaving in an "irregular manner" 20 nautical miles east of the UAE port city of Khor Fakkan, approaching the Gulf of Oman from the northeast."The white, open-topped fast boat was powered by a single outboard motor. The two persons onboard were both wearing military-style camouflage-type uniform," UKMTO said.