The search and rescue operation of the crew of the cargo ship ‘Eternity C’, sunk four days ago in the Red Sea after an attack by the Houthi rebels, has concluded with the rescue of 10 sailors while another 15 are still missing, the companies responsible for the operation reported on Monday.

“The decision to end the search was made by the company that owns the ship,” the maritime security companies ‘Diaplous’ and ‘Ambrey’, which carried out the search and rescue operation, said in a joint statement.

“The priority now must be to get the 10 rescued people to arrive safe and sound and provide them with the urgent medical support they need at this difficult time,” the statement said, citing the wishes of the owner company, the Greek ‘Cosmoship Management’.

The freighter was attacked on the 7th with drones, grenade launchers and speedboats by the Houthis southwest of the Yemeni port of Al Hodeida with 22 sailors on board and three armed guards, members of the security team, as a spokesman for the Greek company confirmed to EFE on the day of the attack.

The Houthi military spokesman, Yahya Sarea, said in a statement issued three days after the attack that “a group of special forces of the Yemeni Navy (Houti) intervened to rescue several members of the ship’s crew, provide them with medical care and transfer them to a safe place” without specifying the number of crew members or their whereabouts.

The US mission in Yemen accused the Houthis in a statement of kidnapping “many surviving crew members” and demanded their immediate release.

Sources that closely follow the matter estimate that six sailors are currently in the hands of the Houthis, something that has not been confirmed by the rebels, according to the digital edition of the British weekly Tradewinds, specialized in maritime affairs.

It is believed that five people have died in the attack and have sunk with the ship at the bottom of the sea, according to the same source.

The Israeli Army killed at least 20 Palestinians in attacks against the Gaza Strip since dawn on Monday, medical sources told EFE.

In the south alone, 14 people died, including two who were waiting for the distribution of food at a distribution point, and several in the Israeli bombing against tents, where most of the forcibly displaced Gaza population lives.

A source from the Naser Hospital also announced the arrival of four other dead after an Israeli drone attack against a group of people in Jan Yunis.

In the northern city of Gaza, three members of the same family, including a woman, died in an Israeli airstrike near the university, the official Palestinian agency Wafa detailed, which also said that one more person died after the Israeli attack on a water distribution vehicle in Nuseirat (center).

Gaza is still deeplted into devastation, without enough food, drinking water or fuel to generate electricity due to the restrictions of Israel, the occupying power that controls the access points to the Palestinian enclave.

On Thursday alone, for the second consecutive day, the UN managed to bring about 75,000 liters of fuel into Gaza, a gesture that, he said, constitutes a “fraction” of what is needed to maintain daily vital rescue operations, ambulances, operating rooms and electricity in hospitals.

The Italian police carried out this Monday a major anti-drug operation in the region of Calabria (south), with 54 detainees by an international cocaine trafficking network linked to the mafia that arrived from Ecuador, Spain, Germany, Holland and Belgium, using the port of Gioia Tauro as a strategic center.

More than 250 agents of the National Police, the Carabineros (militarized police) and the Finance Guard (financial police) were deployed in the operation, under the coordination of the Anti- Mafia Directorate of Reggio Calabria, for the execution of precautionary measures against the 54 suspects, the police reported.

All of them are accused of the crimes of association for crime for the purposes of drug trafficking, drug possession for trafficking purposes, money laundering and extortion, with the aggravating circumstance, for some suspects, of having acted with mafia methods.

During the investigations, in which the most modern technologies were used, the agents seized cash and hundreds of kilograms of drugs, the national police explained in a statement.

The detainees were part, with different degrees of responsibility, of two different criminal criminal associations, the national police explains in a statement.

The investigations, carried out between 2021 and 2024, have made it possible to reconstruct the two criminal groups: one specialized in retail drug trafficking in the territories of Reggio Calabria, Villa San Giovanni and Gioia Tauro (southern Italy).

While the other was dedicated to the import of cocaine, hashish and marijuana from Ecuador, Spain, Germany, the Netherlands and Belgium, using the port of Gioia Tauro as a strategic center.