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A US warship and multiple commercial vessels were attacked in the Red Sea on Sunday, the Pentagon said — a frightening development ratcheting up maritime tensions in the Middle East during the Israel-Hamas war.
The USS Carney, which had previously shot down missiles and drones aimed at it as it escorted a commercial vessel through the war-torn region, was targeted, the Pentagon said. It was not immediately clear whether the American warship was struck.
But at least one commercial vessel was known to be hit Sunday: a vessel belonging to a British company owned by Danny Ungar, the son of Israeli shipping magnate Rami Ungar.
While officials did not identify where the military fire came from, Yemen’s Houthi rebels have proclaimed they would attack ships on the Red Sea over Israeli’s ground incursion into Gaza.
The US Navy destroyer previously engaged with the rebel group Wednesday when it destroyed a drone launched from Yemen, according to Fox News. The ship had been sailing near the Bab el-Mandeb Strait at the time of last week’s attack, but there was no damage to the Carney or its crew.
Before last week’s attack, the USS Carney had downed 15 drones and four cruise missiles in the Red Sea fired from Yemen.
Sunday’s attack against the destroyer and other commercial ships operating in the Red Sea came as the British military said a suspected drone attack and explosion had been carried out in the area. Neither the US Department of Defense nor the British military provided additional details on Sunday’s incidents. Last week, Houthi rebels fired two ballistic missiles in the vicinity of the USS Mason as the warship responded to a distress call from a commercial tanker, the Central Park, being attacked by Somali pirates, the Pentagon said.
The Central Park was invaded by gunmen who fled when the Mason arrived. The Mason chased the attackers to the shores of Yemen.
Houthi rebels fired the missiles near the Mason, with the explosives missing the ship and landing along the Gulf of Aden.