Houthi Terrorists Still Targeting U.S. Ships in the Red Sea
Houthi terrorists keep targeting U.S. ships in the Red Sea despite American strikes in Yemen last week.
The terrorists attacked the M/V Gibraltar Eagle, the 30th attack on commercial vessels since November 19th.
On Jan. 15 at approximately 4 p.m. (Sanaa time), Iranian-backed Houthi militants fired an anti-ship ballistic missile from Houthi-controlled areas of Yemen and struck the M/V Gibraltar Eagle, a Marshall Islands-flagged, U.S.-owned and operated container ship. The ship has reported no injuries or significant damage and is continuing its journey.Earlier in the day, at approximately 2 p.m. (Sanaa time), U.S. Forces detected an anti-ship ballistic missile fired toward the Southern Red Sea commercial shipping lanes. The missile failed in flight and impacted on land in Yemen. There were no injuries or damage reported.
The Iranian-backed terrorists won’t stop:
They vowed again Monday to continue their campaign against U.S. and international targets in the region in response to Israel’s actions in Gaza. “Anyone attempting to hinder us from doing so will fail,” a Houthi official said Monday.Nasruddin Amer, a Houthi spokesman, later said that the Yemeni rebel group would expand its targeting of American vessels. “The ship doesn’t necessarily have to be heading to Israel for us to target it, it is enough for it to be American,” he told the Al Jazeera news network.
On Sunday, our military shot down a cruise missile aimed at one of our Navy destroyers in the Red Sea.
Most of the Houthi targets have nothing to do with Israel:
In recent days, they have targeted a vessel laden with oil from the Russian port of Ust Luga, according to shipping trackers. The vessel had previously been owned by a British company but was bought last year by an offshore entity in the Seychelles.Before that, a Norwegian vessel that was wrongly linked to Israel in some shipping databases was struck, according to its owner Inventor Chemical Tankers.“The shipping industry involves such a maze of stakeholders it’s difficult to assign a single nationality to a vessel,” said Ami Daniel, chief executive of maritime artificial-intelligence provider Windward.
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