Houthi Attack on American Ship in Gulf of Aden: News and Analysis

2024-01-18 23:12:35

The Houthis announced on Thursday night that they had targeted an American ship in the Gulf of Aden, in response to the American-British strikes on their military sites.

A statement published by Houthi accounts on social media said, “The naval forces carried out a targeting operation once morest the American ship (Kim Ranger) in the Gulf of Aden with suitable naval missiles, and the hit was direct.”

The Houthis stressed that this operation comes as “a victory for the oppression of the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip and within the response to the American-British aggression once morest our country.”

According to the Marine Traffic website, which monitors navigation traffic, the ship “Kim Ranger” is a chemical tanker flying the flag of the Marshall Islands.

In less than a week, the US army launched strikes four times in Yemen on military sites of the Iran-backed Houthis, the last of which targeted missiles prepared to be launched at sea shipping lines at dawn on Thursday.

British forces participated in the first strikes only at dawn last Friday.

This comes in response to dozens of attacks carried out by the Houthis in recent weeks on commercial ships in the Red Sea and the Arabian Sea, which they say are linked to or headed to Israel, in support of the Gaza Strip, where a war has been raging between Hamas and the Hebrew countries since October 7.

The Houthis stressed in their statement that “a response to the American and British attacks is inevitably coming, and that any new attack will not remain without response and punishment.”

The United States re-listed the Houthi rebels on its list of “terrorist” entities because they continued to attack ships.

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