Washington:
American forces shot down three one-way assault drones close to industrial ships within the Crimson Sea on Friday, after placing 4 drones on the bottom in Yemen the day earlier than, the US army stated.
Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthis have been focusing on transport for months and their assaults have persevered regardless of repeated American and British strikes aimed toward degrading the rebels’ capability to threaten an important international commerce route.
Early on Friday, US forces “shot down three Houthi one-way assault (drones) close to a number of industrial ships working within the Crimson Sea. There was no injury to any ships,” the Central Command (CENTCOM) stated on social media.
On Thursday, American forces struck 4 Houthi drones in addition to two anti-ship cruise missiles, CENTCOM stated, including that the weapons “had been ready to launch from Houthi-controlled areas of Yemen in direction of the Crimson Sea.”
The Houthis started attacking Crimson Sea transport in November, saying they had been hitting Israel-linked vessels in help of Palestinians in Gaza, which has been ravaged by the Israel-Hamas struggle.
US and UK forces responded with strikes in opposition to the Houthis, who’ve since declared American and British pursuits to be reputable targets as nicely.
Anger over Israel’s devastating marketing campaign in Gaza — which started after an unprecedented Hamas assault on October 7 — has grown throughout the Center East, stoking violence involving Iran-backed teams in Lebanon, Iraq, Syria and Yemen.
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