Houthi Insurgents Attack US Warship, Commercial Vessels in Red Sea
Iranian-backed Houthi insurgents in Yemen launched armed drones and missiles in a five-hour-long assault focusing on a U.S. warship and several other business ships in the Red Sea, the Pentagon stated Sunday, with not less than one of many missiles hitting a Bahamas-flagged cargo vessel.
“Houthi forces attacked a number of business vessels in the Red Sea early this morning,” the Protection Division stated. “The united statesCarney lended assist in some circumstances and shot down Houthi drones that had been headed in its basic route.”
It stated the Carney, a guided missile destroyer, shot down two of the drones, in what might be an additional escalation in a string of maritime assaults in the Center East linked to the practically two-month-old Israel-Hamas struggle. The U.S. ship was not broken in the incident.
The U.S. has in latest weeks shot down a number of drones headed towards Israel that had been launched from Yemen, and in Sunday’s assault, the Pentagon stated it responded to a misery name from the Unity Explorer, which stated it was below assault from missile hearth.
A Houthi army spokesperson, Brig. Gen. Yahya Saree, claimed the assaults, saying the rebels hit one vessel with a missile and one other with a drone whereas in the Bab el-Mandeb Strait that hyperlinks the Red Sea to the Gulf of Aden.
“The Yemeni armed forces proceed to stop Israeli ships from navigating the Red Sea [and Gulf of Aden] till the Israeli aggression in opposition to our steadfast brothers in the Gaza Strip stops,” Saree stated. “The Yemeni armed forces renew their warning to all Israeli ships or these related to Israelis that they’ll change into a reputable goal in the event that they violate what’s said in this assertion.”
Saree additionally recognized the primary vessel hit because the Unity Explorer, which is owned by a British agency that features Dan David Ungar, who lives in Israel, as one in every of its officers. The Houthi spokesperson stated the second hit was a Panamanian-flagged container ship referred to as Quantity 9, which is linked to Bernhard Schulte Shipmanagement.
Israeli media have recognized Ungar as being the son of Israeli transport billionaire Abraham (Rami) Ungar.
For greater than a month, Iranian-backed militias have performed drone and rocket assaults in opposition to the two,500 American troops based mostly in Iraq and the 900 troops in Syria.
