Two container ships and a US cruiser have been targeted by Yemen’s Houthis.
Yemen’s Houthi rebels have announced that they have launched attacks against two container ships and a US Navy cruiser.
Their spokesman Yahya Shari said the Houthis launched a missile attack on the US container ship Maersk Yorktown in the Gulf of Aden. It also claimed that they attacked a US Navy cruiser, also in the Gulf of Aden, with drones.
He was on target and an “Israeli” container shipthe Portuguese-flagged MSC Veracruz in the Indian Ocean, according to the Houthi spokesman.
Since last November, the Iran-proximate Yemeni rebels they frequently launch missile and drone attacks against merchant ships in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden.
They initially said they were targeting ships linked to Israel, but later expanded their targets to include ships linked to the US and Britain in retaliation for strikes against their positions in Yemen by forces from those countries.
