Iran’s state news agency IRNA said on Saturday that its Revolutionary Guards had seized the MSC Aries vessel it said was “linked to Israel” and it was being transferred to Iran’s territorial waters, reports Reuters.
A Guards navy special forces helicopter boarded the Portuguese flagged vessel and seized it, IRNA added.
The Guardian’s visuals team has created a graphic that shows the approximate location of the reported vessel seizure by Iran.
It is based on an earlier update from the United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) that said the vessel had been “reported to have been seized by regional authorities”.
Since that update, Iran’s state news agency IRNA confirmed its Revolutionary Guards had seized the MSC Aries vessel, saying it was “linked to Israel” and was being transferred to Iran’s territorial water
Israel’s foreign minister Israel Katz said on Saturday that Tehran is conducting piracy and should be sanctioned for it, after Iran’s Revolutionary Guards seized an Israeli-linked cargo ship in the strait of Hormuz, reports Reuters.
“The Ayatollah regime of Khamenei is a criminal regime that supports Hamas’s crimes and is now conducting a pirate operation in violation of international law,” Katz said.
“I call on the EU and the free world to immediately declare the Iranian Revolutionary Guards corps as a terrorist organization and to sanction Iran now,” he added.
The Israeli army says the body of missing Israeli boy has been found in the occupied West Bank after he was killed in a “terrorist attack.”
The disappearance of 14-year-old Binyamin Achimair sparked a large settler attack on a Palestinian village on Friday and Saturday, AP reported.
The killing of the teen and the settler rampages marked the latest in an escalation of violence in the territory, at a time when Israel is waging war on Hamas in the Gaza Strip
“Security forces are continuing the pursuit after those suspected of carrying out the attack,” the army said Saturday.
Dutch airline KLM will no longer fly over Israel and Iran, Dutch press agency ANP reported on Saturday, citing a KLM spokesperson.
KLM, the Dutch arm of Air France-KLM, said the move was a precaution, referring to the rising tensions between Iran and Israel, but added that it would continue flying to Tel Aviv, on Israel’s Mediterranean coast.
Iran will bear consequences if it escalates violence in the region, an Israeli military spokesperson said on Saturday, according to Reuters.
“Iran will bear the consequences for choosing to escalate the situation any further,” R Adm Daniel Hagari said in a statement.
“Israel is on high alert. We have increased our readiness to protect Israel from further Iranian aggression. We are also prepared to respond.”
Reuters report that the comments by Hagari came after the statement was made in reference to the seizure of a vessel between the United Arab Emirates and Iran.
The latest figures from the Gaza health ministry, which is run by Hamas, said 52 Palestinians were killed and 95 injured in Israeli strikes in the past 24 hours.
According to the statement, at least 33,686 Palestinians have been killed and 76,309 have been injured in Israeli strikes on Gaza since 7 October.
The ministry does not distinguish between combatants and non-combatants.
Iran’s state news agency IRNA said on Saturday that its Revolutionary Guards had seized the MSC Aries vessel it said was “linked to Israel” and it was being transferred to Iran’s territorial waters, reports Reuters.
A Guards navy special forces helicopter boarded the Portuguese flagged vessel and seized it, IRNA added.
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A video seen by the Associated Press (AP) shows commandos raiding a ship near the strait of Hormuz by helicopter on Saturday, an attack a Middle East defence official attributed to Iran amid wider tensions between Tehran and the west.
According to the AP, the video showed the attack earlier reported by the United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO). Earlier updates from the UKMTO offered no details about the boarding in the Gulf of Oman off the Emirati port city of Fujairah, except that the vessel had been “reported to have been seized by regional authorities”.
Iran did not immediately acknowledge seizing any vessel, nor was there any report carried by state media about the incident.
The defence official, who spoke on condition of anonymity with the AP to discuss intelligence matters, shared the video with the news agency. In it, the commandos are said to have descended on to a stack of containers sitting on the deck of the vessel.
The AP say that a crew member on the ship could be heard saying: “Don’t come out.” He then tells his colleagues to go to the ship’s bridge as more commandos come down on the deck. It adds that, one commando can be seen kneeling above the others to provide them potential cover from fire.
Though the AP could not immediately verify the video, it said that it corresponded to known details of the boarding, and the helicopter involved appeared to be one used by Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guards, which has carried out other ship raids in the past.
The AP report that the vessel involved is likely the Portuguese-flagged MSC Aries, a container ship associated with London-based Zodiac Maritime. Zodiac Maritime is part of Israeli billionaire Eyal Ofer’s Zodiac Group, it adds. Neither MSC nor Zodiac immediately responded to a request for comment by the AP.
According to the news agency, MSC Aries had been last located off Dubai heading toward the strait of Hormuz on Friday and the ship had turned off its tracking data, which has been common for Israeli-affiliated ships moving through the region.
The United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) has published an update on an incident 50 nautical miles northeast of the United Arab Emirates’ Fujairah (see 09:26 BST and 09:38 BST).
In a post on X, the UKMTO wrote that the vessel has been “reported to have been seized by regional authorities”.
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