According to the Pentagon, a US warship and several commercial ships were attacked in the Red Sea in the Middle East this Sunday.
According to ABC News, a Pentagon official said the destroyer Carney “shot down a few planes “We are advancing towards them from Houthi-controlled areas in Yemen.”
“On at least two occasions,” the official added to the chain: Carney successfully shot down drones “that they were going in their own direction.”
According to US media, the Pentagon briefly confirmed that they were aware of reports about “attacks on the USS Carney and merchant ships in the Red Sea” and would provide more information as it became available.
The official told ABC News that “a ballistic missile fired from the Houthis in Yemen landed near a merchant ship in the Red Sea, and the USS Carney was nearby and responded to the ship’s distress call.”
The official said that there were no injuries in the incident.
The attack on the destroyer Carney marks a significant escalation in a series of naval attacks in the Middle East linked to the war in Gaza between Israel and the Islamist group Hamas.
On the same Sunday, the British Navy reported that there was an “attack with unmanned aerial systems” in the Red Sea, especially near Bab al-Mandeb near the Yemeni coast, and called on ships passing through the region to “take precautions”.
Again today, Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi rebels claimed responsibility for missile and drone attacks on cargo ships. “Unity Explorer” and “Number 9” As it passes through the Red Sea, it is the scene of increasing tension due to the war in the Gaza Strip.
Houthi military spokesman Yahya Sarea said in his televised speech that the rebels “carried out an operation against two Israeli ships” in the Bab al-Mandab Strait, and that the ships “Unity Explorer“, with the flag of the Bahamas and “Number 9” with the flag of Panama.