The rebels Hootie her Yemeni announced today that they launched attacks against two ships container ship and a US Navy cruiser.
Their spokesman Yahya Sharia 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.
An “Israeli” container ship, the Portuguese-flagged MSC Veracruz in the Indian Ocean, was also targeted, according to the Houthi spokesman.
Since last November, Iran-aligned Yemeni rebels have frequently launched 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.
The US says it shot down a Houthi missile fired from Yemen
The US military announced early today that it had destroyed an anti-ship ballistic missile (ASBM) fired “from an area controlled by Iran-backed Houthi terrorists” in Yemen towards the Gulf of Aden on Wednesday.
The missile’s “probable” target was the MV Yorktown, a US-flagged container ship owned and operated by a US shipping company, with a crew of “18 US citizens and 4 Greeks”, the US Joint Chiefs of Staff said. is in charge of the Middle East region (CENTCOM, “central command”) through X.
