Yemen strikes US ship, warships with missiles, drones
Yemen’s Army said on Saturday it fired missiles at an “American” commercial ship and launched drones at US warships in the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden in support of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.
Yemen’s Armed Forces spokesman Yahya Saree said the Yemeni forces carried out two separate attacks. The first targeted the commercial vessel Propel Fortune in the Gulf of Aden, he said, calling it an “American” ship.
The second saw “37 drones” fired at “a number of American” warships, Saree said.
“The two operations successfully achieved their goals,” he added.
“The Yemeni Armed Forces will continue to carry out their military operations in the Red and Arab Sea until the aggression stops and the siege on the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip is lifted,” Saree underlined.
However, the US and its allies claimed they shot down 15 drones fired by Yemen into the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden on Saturday, in one of the largest attacks by the Arabian country.
The US Central Command, or CENTCOM, said the “large-scale” attack occurred before dawn in the Red Sea and adjacent Gulf of Aden.
Yemen has openly supported Palestine’s struggle against Israel since the occupying regime launched a devastating war on Gaza on October 7 after the territory’s Palestinian resistance movements carried out the surprise Operation Al-Aqsa Storm.