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USA confirmed attacks on merchant ships in the Red Sea

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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 ensure security along the key international trade route that has been under attack since war between Israel and Hamas broke out nine months ago, AP reports.

Three small Houthi ships, two crewed and one unmanned, attacked the Panamanian-flagged, Israeli-owned MT Bently I off the coast of Al Hudaydah in Yemen, according to British and American authorities.

The “unmanned small boat collided with the ship twice and the two manned small boats fired at the ship,” the British military’s United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations Center reported. “The ship took self-protection measures and after 15 minutes the small boat aborted the attack.”

The captain later reported three separate waves of missile attacks exploding in the immediate vicinity of the ship.

Later on Monday, in a separate incident off the same coast, the MT Chios Lion, a Liberian-flagged oil tanker owned by the Marshall Islands, was attacked by a Houthi unmanned aerial vehicle, which “impacted the port side causing some damage and light smoke,” according to the UKMTO.

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