Yemen’s Houthis late on Tuesday claimed an attack on a Saudi oil tanker in the Red Sea, saying that the vessel had violated the blockade the Iran-aligned group announced last week on Saudi shipments in the Red Sea and Bab el-Mandeb Strait. “The Yemeni armed forces carried out a military operation targeting the Saudi oil tanker (NCC GHAZAL) for violating the maritime navigation ban imposed on the Saudi enemy and for refusing warning calls, using a number of ballistic missiles,” Yahya Saree, the Houthi military spokesman, said in…