{"id":80221,"date":"2026-08-20T18:00:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T18:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/80221\/"},"modified":"2026-08-20T18:00:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T18:00:13","slug":"tanker-hijacked-off-yemen-coast-and-diverted-towards-somalia-sean-bell-analysis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/80221\/","title":{"rendered":"Tanker hijacked off Yemen coast and diverted towards Somalia | Sean Bell analysis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title = \"Tanker hijacked off Yemen coast and diverted towards Somalia | Sean Bell analysis\"   width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xmyHsjd1r08\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>\nTanker hijacked off Yemen coast and diverted towards Somalia | Sean Bell analysis<br \/>\n<br \/>\nA tanker has reportedly been hijacked off the coast of Yemen and diverted towards Somalia after armed individuals boarded the vessel.<\/p>\n<p>The incident comes amid growing tensions across the region and renewed concerns over the security of commercial shipping. <\/p>\n<p>Military analyst Sean Bell explains what happened, the history of piracy in the area and what this latest incident could mean for regional security.<\/p>\n<p>Read more: https:\/\/news.sky.com\/<\/p>\n<p>#skynews #yemen #tanker #hijacked #middleeast <\/p>\n<p>SUBSCRIBE to our YouTube channel for more videos: http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/skynews<br \/>\nFollow us on X: https:\/\/twitter.com\/skynews<br \/>\nLike us on Facebook: https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/skynews<br \/>\nFollow us on Instagram: https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/skynews<br \/>\nFollow us on TikTok: https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@skynews <\/p>\n<p>For more content go to http:\/\/news.sky.com and download our apps: Apple https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/gb\/app\/sky-news\/id316391924?mt=8 Android https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=com.bskyb.skynews.android&#038;hl=en_GB <\/p>\n<p>Why not listen to one of our podcasts? This is Why, available for free here: https:\/\/podfollow.com\/thisiswhy or Ed Conway&#8217;s Stuff Matters, available here: https:\/\/podfollow.com\/stuff-matters<\/p>\n<p>To enquire about licensing Sky News content, you can find more information here: https:\/\/news.sky.com\/info\/library-sales<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tanker hijacked off Yemen coast and diverted towards Somalia | Sean Bell analysis A tanker has reportedly been&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":80222,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[8],"tags":[233,3245,9760,65648,191,38,65649,45894,6422,31,38522,14415,4502,32,1520,296,10681,65650,5829,28,279,44,16306,29],"class_list":["post-80221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sky-news","tag-attacks","tag-ceasefire","tag-coast","tag-hijacked","tag-houthi","tag-iran","tag-makala","tag-maritime","tag-negotiations","tag-news","tag-operations","tag-red-sea","tag-sean-bell","tag-shipping","tag-sky","tag-sky-news","tag-somalia","tag-suez-canal","tag-tanker","tag-trade","tag-uk","tag-usa","tag-vessel","tag-yemen"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@videos\/117129204316664446","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80221\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}