Yemen’s Maritime Blockade Causes Electrical Goods Crisis in Israel

This week, Israeli media reported a crisis in the market for electrical goods within Israel, with prices set to rise due to the effects of the maritime blockade imposed by Yemeni armed forces on the arrival of ships to the occupied Palestinian ports.

The Israeli Channel 12 stated earlier this week that there is a shortage in the supply of electrical goods due to the Houthis, as they put it. The Hebrew site “News1” quoted sources in the electricity industry on Sunday saying that there is a noticeable shortage in vacuum cleaners, refrigerators, mixers, screens, and dishwashers. This shortage is attributed to the delay in supplies from the East as a result of the operations of the Yemeni armed forces in the Red Sea.

The site’s sources confirmed that estimates indicate that in the period preceding Easter (starting from mid-April), prices will rise by at least 10%. These pieces of information confirm the continued doubling of the effects of the maritime blockade imposed by the armed forces on the arrival of ships to the occupied Palestinian ports. The commander of the revolution, Sayyid Abdul Malik Badr al-Din al-Houthi, announced last Thursday the start of its expansion to include the Indian Ocean, where the targeting of ships associated with the Zionist entity began to prevent them from crossing the alternative route around Cape of Good Hope, which they were forced to resort to avoid the Red Sea and Bab al-Mandab; this is expected to cause multiplied effects.

The occupied port of Umm al-Rashrash (Eilat) has been almost completely closed for months, where navigation tracking sites show that it has not received any cargo ships since last December; this confirms the success of the Yemeni armed forces in completely preventing Zionist navigation through the Red Sea.

The Zionist Ministry of Economy previously admitted that the Yemeni blockade harmed 25% of the imports of consumer goods to the enemy entity and 21% of the imports of production materials, as well as hit the competitive ability of exports, at a time when Hebrew media revealed a rise in prices that reached more than 40% in some products; as a result of the rise in the costs of maritime shipping and the delays that also led to a shortage in many goods, these effects are likely to increase with the expansion of the Yemeni maritime blockade to the Indian Ocean.