The attacks follow the departure of the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower after an eight-month deployment in which the aircraft carrier led the American response to the Houthi assaults
This handout photo released by the U.S. Defence Visual Information Distribution Service shows the U.S. Navy Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower and Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyers USS Laboon and USS Gravely, part of the Dwight D. Eisenhower Carrier Group, sailing in formation in the Red Sea with the Italian aircraft carrier ITS Cavour on June 7, as part of their mission to support maritime stability and security in the Middle East region.
The ship attack happened off the coast of Aden, the British military’s United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations center said. The Houthis have targeted Eilat before with drones and missiles. However, an Iranian-backed umbrella group known as the Islamic Resistance in Iraq claimed the attack. That group recently began what it and the Houthis describe as joint operations over the Israel-Hamas war.
The Houthis have maintained that their attacks target ships linked to Israel, the United States or Britain. However, many of the ships attacked have little or no connection to the Israel-Hamas war — including those bound for Iran. “The Houthis detained four planes at Sanaa International Airport and prevented their return to Jeddah airport to transport our country’s pilgrims who want to return to Sanaa,” minister Mohammed Shabiba wrote on the social platform X, asking pilgrims still in Mecca to remain there. “I ask our honorable pilgrims to settle in their homes until the return of the planes hijacked by the terrorist Houthi militia.
The Houthis and Yemen’s exiled government have been increasingly at odds in recent months over economic issues, even after a long push by a Saudi-led coalition backing the government to end the country’s war.
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