from RT:
Yemeni Houthis claim to have hit three American Navy destroyers
Yemen’s Houthi rebels have attacked American warships in the Middle East with a combined drone and cruise missile strike, the Pentagon confirmed on Friday. Earlier in the day, the military group claimed to have struck three US destroyers heading toward Israel in the Red Sea.
Pentagon spokesperson Sabrina Singh confirmed that US Navy ships were attacked but insisted that no damage was inflicted.
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“We did see a complex attack launched by the Houthis that ranged from cruise missiles to UAVs,” she said during a press briefing on Friday. “My understanding is that those were either engaged and shot down or failed; at no time did any hit a US ship.”
The Houthis targeted three US Navy destroyers that were “supporting Israel” with 23 ballistic and cruise missiles and a drone, according to Houthi-run al-Masirah TV, which cited the group’s spokesman on Friday. He claimed that all three ships suffered direct hits and added that the attack was carried out with a simultaneous missile and drone launch at targets in Israel.
These operations “will not stop until the aggression on Gaza and Lebanon stops,” the spokesman stressed.
The Yemeni armed group has been attacking ships it associates with Israel in the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden since October of last year, in solidarity with the Palestinians in Gaza amid the Israeli campaign in the enclave.
