Two attacks by Yemen’s Houthi rebels targeted ships in the Red Sea on Monday as a new U.S. aircraft carrier approached the region to provide security for the key international trade route that has been under assault since the Israel-Hamas war erupted nine months ago.
Three small Houthi vessels, two of which were crewed and another uncrewed, attacked the Panama-flagged and Israeli-owned MT Bently I off the coast of Al Hudaydah, Yemen, according to British and American authorities.
The “reported unmanned small craft collided with the vessel twice and the 2 manned small craft fired at the vessel,” the British military’s United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations center reported. ”The vessel conducted self-protection measures, after 15 minutes the small craft aborted the attack.”
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