title: Iran-Israel ‘Shadow War’ in Waters around the Arabian Peninsula and Incidents near the Bab el-Mandeb
abstract: The Bab el-Mandeb connects Djibouti's, Yemen's and Somalia's eez s in the Gulf of Aden on the one hand, and the eez s of Eritrea, Yemen, Sudan, Saudi Arabia, and Egypt in the Red Sea on the other hand. These States, except Eritrea, are States party to the losc.1 Hence, similar to the legal regime of the Strait of Hormuz, the regime of transit passage applies in the Bab el-Mandeb (Art 37 of losc).