Houthis launch major missile attack on three US navy destroyers

The Yemeni Houthis, part of the Ansar Allah movement, have executed a significant missile strike on three US Navy destroyers, deploying a total of 23 cruise and ballistic missiles.

Yahya Sarya, the military spokesman for the Houthis, announced the operation stating, “The Yemeni Armed Forces targeted three American destroyers in the Red Sea as they were en route to support the Israeli enemy. The operation involved 23 ballistic and cruise missiles, alongside one drone,” Caliber.Az reports per foreign media.

The Houthis are backed by Iran and are supporting Hamas in the war in Gaza. Soon after the Hamas massacre on October 7, the Houthi leader Abdul Malik Al-Houthi said his forces were “ready to move in the hundreds of thousands to join the Palestinian people and confront the enemy”.

The Red Sea, one of the world’s most densely packed shipping channels, lies south of the Suez canal, the most significant waterway connecting Europe to Asia and east Africa. Yemen is situated along the sea’s south-east coast, where it meets the Gulf of Aden.

Shortly after the start of the Gaza war, the Houthis began launching missile and drone attacks at vessels in the Red Sea, most of which were intercepted by US and Israeli countermeasures.

By Vafa Guliyeva