(Hodeida) Ten Houthi rebels were killed in a US bombardment that sank their ships in the Red Sea where they were attacking a container ship, two sources from the Houthi-controlled Yemeni port of Hodeida said on Sunday.
“Ten Houthis were killed and two were injured during the US strike on Houthi boats trying to intercept a ship at sea off Hodeida,” said one of the two sources.
The injured were rescued after the attack and taken to hospital and four other people survived, according to port sources who spoke to AFP on condition of anonymity.
The American army had earlier claimed to have sunk three Houthi rebel ships, after attacks in the Red Sea on a container ship from the Danish carrier Maersk, which suspended the transit of its ships in the area for 48 hours.
Targeted by Houthi fire, American helicopters “retaliated in self-defense, sinking three of the four small ships, and killing the crews,” according to the American Military Command in the Middle East (CENTCOM) in a press release, specifying that the fourth boat had “fled the area”.
Since the start of the conflict between Israel and Hamas, after the bloody attack carried out on October 7 by the Palestinian Islamist movement on Israeli territory, the Houthis have increased attacks in the Red Sea against ships they consider “linked to Israel », in solidarity with the Palestinian territory bombed and besieged by the Israeli army.
THE Maersk Hangzhoua Singapore-flagged container ship of the Danish carrier Maersk, is a victim of the “23e attempted attack by the Houthis against international ships since October 19,” Centcom said.
Israel’s first ally, the United States patrols the Red Sea, a strategic area of the globe, with other countries, within an international coalition to protect maritime traffic from Houthi attacks.