In the past 24 hours, Yemen’s Houthi militias have launched six attacks on US ships operating in the Red Sea, including the Eisenhower aircraft carrier. This was the information given to Reuters by Yahya Sari, a spokesman for the Houthi armed forces.
The Iran-backed Houthis targeted a US aircraft carrier, a destroyer and three ships in the Red Sea and Indian Ocean. Targets included the aircraft carrier Eisenhower in the North Red Sea. As the Houthi spokesman emphasized, this was “the second attack on an aircraft carrier in the last 24 hours”.
Yahya Saari added that the Houthis attacked a US destroyer and three merchant ships in the Red Sea, Arabian Sea and Indian Ocean. Currently, there is no reliable information about the consequences of these attacks.
The Houthis, who have been actively involved in Yemen’s civil war since 2014, have frequently attacked warships and merchant ships in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden. Their attacks are part of a growing solidarity with Palestinian Hamas, which is in conflict with the Israeli military in the Gaza Strip.
Do these series of attacks mean increasing tension in the region? Will it affect the geopolitical situation in the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean? These questions are now unanswered.
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