USA: They shot down a Houthi missile – the target was a ship with four Greeks, the rebels announced

Ballistic missile launched “from an area controlled by the Iranian-backed Houthi» in Yemen towards the Gulf of Aden announced on Thursday (25/4) that the US armed forces shot down.

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 four Greeks”, the US Joint Chiefs of Staff said. is in charge of the Middle East region (CENTCOM, “central command”) through X.

“No injuries or damage to US (Navy) ships, coalition ships, or commercial vessels were reported,” CENTCOM added.

At the same time, four Houthi unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) were destroyed in flight, according to the same source.

Earlier, Yemen’s Houthi rebels confirmed that they had 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.

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.