The British Maritime Trade Operations Authority said on Saturday that the crew of a cargo ship flying the Palau flag had been evacuated, and that the ship caught fire and began to sink, in reference to an incident 98 nautical miles east of Aden, Yemen, on June 13.
The US Central Command said that missiles fired by the Houthis in Yemen hit the ship Verbena in the Gulf of Aden on Thursday, causing a fire and seriously wounding one of its crew members.
The US Army announced that it destroyed 7 radars in an area in Yemen used by the Ansar Allah Houthi group to attack ships, and said that a sailor is still missing since the Houthis attacked a Greek ship in the Red Sea last Wednesday.
The US Central Command said on Friday that it had destroyed a drone and two drone boats in Yemen during the past 24 hours, in addition to destroying the seven radars.
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She explained that the Houthi weapons destroyed represented an imminent threat to American and coalition forces and ships sailing in the region.
The American command said that the Greek ship, which was damaged after being exposed to a Houthi attack, had been abandoned and that water was slowly seeping into it.
In solidarity with Gaza, which has been facing a devastating Israeli war with American support for the ninth month, the Ansar Allah group is targeting the Houthis with missiles and drones on Israeli cargo ships in the Red Sea, the Arabian Sea, and the Indian Ocean.
Since the beginning of this year, a US-led coalition has launched raids that it says target Houthi sites in various regions of Yemen.
With the intervention of Washington and London, the Houthi group announced that it now considered all American and British ships among its military targets.