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/ The British maritime security firm, AMBREY, announced on Tuesday that a cargo ship owned by a British company had sustained minor damage after a drone attack that attempted to target it while it was sailing off the coast of Yemen, where the Iranian-backed Houthi rebels control large areas of it.
“Ambry” said that the ship, which flies the Barbados flag, “suffered minor damage to its port side”, without any human casualties, according to Agence France-Presse.
For its part, Reuters reported that “Ambry” indicated that the ship had suffered “minor damage on its side opposite the port of Hodeidah,” in the latest attack on a cargo ship in the Red Sea.
The US military said on Tuesday that its forces carried out a defensive raid on two Houthi drones in Yemen, while a British maritime authority announced that it had received a report of an incident west of Hodeidah, Yemen.
The US military announced earlier on Tuesday that its forces targeted two drone boats belonging to the Houthi group (listed on the US terrorism list) in Yemen.
“US forces identified two explosive-laden drone boats in Houthi-controlled areas of Yemen and determined they posed an imminent threat to US Navy ships and commercial vessels in the area,” US Central Command said in a post on its X platform.
Since November 19, the Iran-backed Houthis have been carrying out attacks on commercial vessels in the Red Sea and the Arabian Sea, which they suspect are linked to Israel or heading to its ports, and say this is in support of the Gaza Strip, which has been witnessing a war between Hamas and Israel since October 7. But some of the ships that the group tried to target were not linked to Israel.
In an attempt to deter them, American and British forces launched a series of strikes on their military sites in Yemen. The American military alone occasionally carries out strikes on missiles it says are ready to be launched and on Houthi military sites.