On December 23, the Houthis—Iran-backed rebel armed forces in Yemen—seized the Gabon-flagged commercial crude oil tanker, MV Sai Baba, in the Southern Red Sea after targeting it in a drone attack. The ship had 25 Indian crew members onboard but no one was injured, as per officials. The latest drone strike is one of the many attacks launched by the Houthis in recent months, raising an alarm over the heightened regional tensions, now playing out on a new maritime front, amid Israel’s war on Gaza.