British maritime security company Ambrey said on Thursday that a commercial ship reported being hit by a projectile off the coast of the Yemeni port of Hodeidah overlooking the Red Sea.
This comes as the US Central Command (Centcom) announced the destruction of a radar site belonging to the Ansar Allah group (Houthis) in an area they control in Yemen during the past 24 years.
The leadership indicated that this step came to protect freedom of navigation and make international waters safer for ships, noting that the radar site represented an “imminent threat” to American forces, coalition forces, and ships in the region.
Ambre Company added that there have been no reports of injuries or damage so far in the incident targeting the ship, which occurred 84 nautical miles west of the port of Hodeidah, indicating that the ship and its crew are fine and on the way to the next port.
The targeted ship was heading to the city of Dammam, eastern Saudi Arabia.
International navigation in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden is facing disruption due to the attacks launched by the Houthis in the region since last November, as part of their solidarity with the Gaza Strip, which has been subjected to Israeli aggression for the ninth month in a row.
Since then, many ships have avoided the Red Sea to reach the Suez Canal, and have taken the longer and more expensive route via the southern tip of Africa.
In response to these attacks, at the beginning of this year, Washington and London began launching air strikes and missile attacks on Houthi sites in Yemen, which the group responded to by announcing that it had now considered all American and British ships among its military targets, and expanding its attacks to ships passing through the Arabian Sea and the Indian Ocean or any place it could reach. Her weapons.