Hard to find good sources on this.<p>Guardian article (Feb 5, 2024), "Houthi-linked Telegram channel published a map of the cables running along the bed of the Red Sea. The image was accompanied by a message: “There are maps of international cables connecting all regions of the world through the sea. It seems that Yemen is in a strategic location, as internet lines that connect entire continents – not only countries – pass near it.”<p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/feb/05/houthis-may-sabotage-western-internet-cables-in-red-sea-yemen-telecoms-firms-warn" rel="nofollow">https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/feb/05/houthis-may-sa...</a><p>MEMRI publishes word for word quote of above with screenshots of Telegram group (Dec 24, 2023).<p><a href="https://www.memri.org/jttm/veiled-threat-telegram-channels-linked-houthi-ansar-allah-movement-point-submarine-internet" rel="nofollow">https://www.memri.org/jttm/veiled-threat-telegram-channels-l...</a><p>Today (Feb 26, 2024) @Netblocks posts screenshot of drop in traffic.<p><a href="https://twitter.com/netblocks/status/1762115571376685524" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/netblocks/status/1762115571376685524</a><p>Sunil Tagare - Founder & CEO, OpenCables (Feb 25, 2024)<p>How can these be repaired? Can it even be done safely? Insurance of operating a specialized boat in these waters? (paraphrasing)<p><a href="https://twitter.com/tagaresunil/status/1761859936617959443" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/tagaresunil/status/1761859936617959443</a>
Related yesterday:<p><i>Submarine cables cut in the Red Sea.Authorities looking at potential terrorism</i><p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39506931">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39506931</a>
This should provoke swift, hard, and overwhelming reactions from G7 countries. The undersea cables have to be inviolate or we'll see this happen all the time, with major negative impacts to internet stability and effective international commerce.
<i>Four underwater communications cables between Saudi Arabia and Djibouti have been struck out of commission in recent months...<p>Most of the immediate harm will be absorbed by the Gulf states and India, Globes said.</i><p>This is in the Middle East and may or may not be related to the war in Gaza.<p>I'm like the worst possible person to do this because I tend to not follow The News and I expect someone to get very upset with me for it. But I will say the world needs peace in the Middle East more than I understood. There is -- or was -- critical infrastructure running through there and this is potentially a big deal globally.<p>And that does not mean I am advocating some kind of intervention from other countries. Please don't put words in my mouth in that regard. I'm just saying the ongoing issues there are apparently now becoming a global problem in ways that likely most people would not have predicted.