A boat carrying 7 fishermen from Mokha was lost off the coast of Mokha, west of Taiz Governorate (southwest of Yemen).

Fishermen in Mokha said that 7 fishermen have been missing since last Wednesday, off the shores of Mokha, and the search for them is still ongoing until this moment.

The missing fishermen are: “Metab Saleh, Hamada Saleh, Muhammad Khaled Saldi, Fathi Shanabi, Fawad Muhammad Fatini, Talal Adel and Fouad Abdo.”

The fishermen added that their attempts to find the missing persons failed, calling on the authorities to help them expand the scope of the search to find out their fate.

In late January, citizens found the bodies of eight fishermen from Al-Khawkha District near Dhu Harab Islands, who were shot dead in the Red Sea after they had been missing for a month.

Fishermen on the West Coast are complaining of the increasing frequency of their targeting in the past two months during fishing trips as a result of the mutual military escalation between the Houthis and the Washington-led coalition in the Red Sea, in addition to the violations and kidnappings they are exposed to by the Houthi militia and Eritrean forces.