ROME, Italy
Italy will become a target if it takes part in attacks against Yemen, a senior official from Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthis said in an interview published on Monday.
Mohamed Ali Al-Houthi, head of
the Houthi’s supreme revolutionary committee, told daily La Repubblica that
Italy must be neutral in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and put pressure on
Israel to stop attacks on Gaza, adding that would be the only way to achieve
peace in the region.
Italy said on Friday it would
provide the admiral in command of a European Union Red Sea naval mission it has
joined to protect ships from attacks by Yemen’s Houthi militia.
The mandate of the mission,
which will be launched in mid-February, will be to protect commercial ships and
intercept attacks, but not take part in strikes against the Houthis, the EU’s
foreign policy chief Josep Borrell has said.
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