With Missiles and Drones… Houthis Announce Two Attacks on US Ship and Destroyers

Houthi militias announced on Saturday that they conducted two attacks targeting a civilian ship and US destroyers in the Gulf of Aden and the Red Sea using ballistic missiles and drones.

The Houthis, through their military spokesperson Yahya Saree, stated that they “carried out two attacks, the first targeting the ship (PROPEL FORTUNE) in the Gulf of Aden with a number of appropriate maritime missiles.” The Houthis further clarified that they also executed a second attack targeting several American war destroyers in the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden using 37 drones, claiming that both attacks successfully hit their targets.

On Friday, an official source from the Yemeni coast guard, preferring not to be named, said  that “the Houthi militias attempted to target the ship PROPEL FORTUNE flying the Singaporean flag in the Gulf of Aden with two anti-ship missiles, confirming that the missiles fell near the bulk carrier without directly hitting it.”

Last Wednesday, Houthi militias launched a “deadly attack” on the True Confidence ship flying the Barbados flag in the Gulf of Aden, resulting in the deaths of three crew members of various nationalities and injuring four others, causing the ship to drift.

A day prior to that, Houthi militias directly targeted the residential site of the crew of the Australian ship MSC SKY, causing a fire on board the ship.

Houthi militias, through their leader Abdel-Malik al-Houthi in his recent speeches, acknowledged conducting more than 96 attacks targeting 61 merchant ships in the Arabian Sea, the Red Sea, the Gulf of Aden, and the Bab el-Mandeb Strait over the past few months.

Since last November, Houthi militias have been carrying out attacks on commercial ships in the Red Sea, the Gulf of Aden, and the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, claiming they are linked to Israel or headed towards its ports.

In an attempt to deter the Houthis and protect navigation in the strategic region through which 12% of global trade passes, US and British forces have conducted a series of strikes against their military sites in Yemen since January.

Following the Western strikes, the Houthis have begun targeting US and British ships in the region, considering the interests of both countries as “legitimate targets.”