Pentagon believes Somali pirates behind latest attack on ship near Yemen, not Houthis

The Pentagon has informed the public that they believe that the armed individuals that attacked an Israel-linked tanker on November 26 near Yemen were in fact Somali and not, as previously thought, Iranian-backed Houthi rebels.

As reported by Politico, referring to the US Defense Department's press secretary Brig. Gen. Pat Ryder, ballistic missiles had been fired shortly after from Houthi-controlled territory in Yemen which is why the Pentagon does still not rule out that the Houthis were somehow linked to the Somali-conducted attack on the Liberian-flagged ship called the "Central Park".

The five armed individuals debarked the ship and attempted to flee when the American destroyer, the USS Mason approached the hijacked vessel after receiving a distress call from it. 

As the publication recalls, attacks on commercial vessels that are passing through the Gulf of Aden, which is the strait separating the coasts of Yemen and Somalia, have previously been conducted by Houthi militants as part of the wider issue of rising violence in the region due to the Israel-Hamas war.