During the past 24 hours, Houthi fighters in Yemen carried out six attacks on American ships, including the aircraft carrier Eisenhower operating in the Red Sea. This is the information provided to Reuters by the spokesman for the Houthi armed forces, Yahya Saree.
The Houthis, supported by Iran, targeted a US aircraft carrier, a destroyer and three other ships in the Red Sea and Indian Ocean. Targets included the aircraft carrier Eisenhower located in the northern Red Sea. As the Houthi spokesman confirmed, this is “the second such attack on an aircraft carrier in the past 24 hours.”
Yahya Sarie added that the Houthis also attacked an American destroyer and three commercial ships in the Red Sea, Arabian Sea and Indian Ocean. There is currently no reliable information about the effects of these attacks.
The Houthis, who have been active in Yemen’s civil war since 2014, frequently attack warships and commercial vessels in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden. Their attacks come within the framework of greater solidarity with the Palestinian Hamas movement, which is involved in the conflict with the Israeli army in the Gaza Strip.
Does this series of attacks mean an escalation of tension in the region? Could this affect the geopolitical situation in the Red Sea and Indian Ocean? These questions remain unanswered at the moment.
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