<p class="ingestion featured-caption">Fires can be seen on board the Sounion, a Greek-flagged oil tanker.Houthi Media Center via Getty Images</p><ul class="summary-list"><li>A commercial oil tanker adrift in the Red Sea was still on fire days after an attack by the Houthis.</li><li>The Greek-flagged vessel MV Sounion was struck by an exploding Houthi drone boat last week.</li></ul><p>A commercial oil tanker adrift in the <a target="_blank" class href="https://www.businessinsider.com/red-sea-conflict-largest-navy-battle-since-world-war-ii-2024-2">Red Sea</a> was still on fire days after <a target="_blank" class href="https://www.businessinsider.com/yemens-houthi-rebels-are-menacing-ships-on-the-high-seas-2024-5">Houthi rebels</a> attacked it with an <a target="_blank" class href="https://www.businessinsider.com/houthi-fight-shows-us-navy-needs-training-defeat-drones-commander-2024-7">explosive-laden drone boat</a> last week.</p><p>The incident was the <a target="_blank" class href="https://www.businessinsider.com/houthis-getting-smarter-red-sea-attacks-ships-paying-the-price-2024-6">most recent successful attack</a> by the Iranian-backed rebel group in Yemen, which is targeting vessels in key shipping lanes in the Red Sea in solidarity with Palestinians amid the war in the Gaza Strip.</p>