America sinks three ships and kills ten Houthi rebels in the Red Sea | world

The US military said today, Sunday (31), that it sank three Houthi boats and killed ten of them in response to attacks on a cargo ship belonging to a Danish shipping company.

The rebel spokesman, Yahya Saree, said on the social networking site X (formerly Twitter) that ten of their members were killed in “an attack launched by American enemy forces on three boats belonging to the Yemeni naval forces.”

A source at the port had previously reported that “ten rebels were killed and two others were wounded in the American attack on Houthi boats that were trying to intercept a boat at sea off Hodeidah” ​​in Yemen.

The injured were rescued and taken to hospital, while four others survived.

According to the US Central Command in the Middle East (Centcom), the Houthis fired on the US helicopters and responded in self-defense, sinking three of the four small ships.

The US Navy responded to a request for assistance from the Maersk Hangzhou, a Singapore-flagged cargo ship owned and operated by Denmark, which it said had been attacked for the second time in 24 hours while sailing through the Red Sea.

The ship had already been attacked by two missiles launched from Yemeni territory controlled by the Houthis, and were destroyed by the US military.

Since the start of the conflict between Israel and Hamas, following the deadly attack carried out by the Palestinian Islamic movement on Israeli territory on October 7, the Houthis have attacked ships in the Red Sea on several occasions, stating that they are doing so in support of Palestinians in Gaza.

These attacks, which occurred on an important trade route, prompted the United States to activate a multinational naval force at the beginning of the month to protect ships sailing through the Red Sea.

Shortly after the American announcement, the Danish company Maersk said it would suspend the movement of its ships through the Red Sea for 48 hours.