At first, only ships carrying Israeli goods or stopping in Israel were covered. Then, when the West covered Israel, all the ships of the nations supporting the massacre in Gaza were hit. Russian or Chinese ships have never been worried.

Western shipping companies and Western oil transnationals gradually diverted their ships from the Red Sea, through which a third of Western traffic passed. They now go around Africa rather than taking the Suez Canal.

The United States has formed an international coalition to protect Western maritime traffic in the Red Sea, Operation Prosperity Guardian. After President Emmanuel Macron decided to join, the French army general staff refused to participate in an operation aimed at allowing the massacre in Gaza to continue. Likewise, Spain withdrew.

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