by Karen Faulkner, Worthy News Correspondent
(Worthy News) – As clashes continue between the US and its allies and Iran-backed Houthi Islamic rebels in Yemen, the jihadist terrorists launched anti-ship ballistic missiles at an American vessel in the Red Sea at the weekend, the Washington Times reports.
Aiming to take over the whole of Yemen, the Sunni Islamist Houthis are aligned not only with Iran but also with Hamas: the Yemeni group has carried out intensifying rocket attacks against Western-aligned and Israeli targets since Hamas’ Oct. 7 genocidal attack on Israel triggered the ongoing war in Gaza.
According to the US Central Command, the Houthis fired ballistic missiles at the American destroyer USS Gravely in the southern Red Sea late on Saturday, the Times reports. The missiles were shot down, with no damage or injuries to US troops.
CENTCOM’s “actions are taken to protect freedom of navigation and make international waters safer and more secure for U.S., coalition, and merchant vessels,” CENTCOM said in a statement.
Saturday’s attack was apparent retaliation for airstrikes launched by the United Kingdom in Yemen on Thursday. The UK strikes were themselves a response to a recent surge of Houthi attacks on international ships in the Red Sea and the Gulf of Arden. The Houthis claim 16 people were killed in the British strikes.
“The American-British aggression will not prevent us from continuing our military operations in support of Palestine, and we will meet escalation with escalation, and we will not stop except by stopping the crimes of genocide in Gaza and lifting the siege on its residents,” Houthi member Mohammed Al-Bukhaiti said in a post on X.
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