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Two ballistic missiles were fired from Houthi rebel-controlled Yemen toward a US warship in the Gulf of Aden, after the US Navy responded to a distress call from a commercial tanker that had been seized by armed individuals, the US military said Sunday.

The tanker, identified as the Central Park, had been carrying a cargo of phosphoric acid when its crew called for help that “they were under attack from an unknown entity,” the US Central Command said in a statement.

The USS Mason, a guided-missile destroyer, and allied ships from a counter-piracy task force that operates in the Gulf of Aden and off the coast of Somalia responded to the call for help and “demanded release of the vessel” upon arrival, Central Command said.

“Subsequently, five armed individuals debarked the ship and attempted to flee via their small boat,” said the statement posted on social media platform X.

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[-] roguetrick@kbin.social 11 points 9 months ago

The Houthi hate the US for reasons other than Israel. They kind of view us as at the same level of Israel.

[-] shiroininja@lemmy.world 10 points 9 months ago

Well we have been selling arms to the Saudis for a proxy war that by now has led to the starvation death of children numbered at almost 100,000. Atleast it was around 70,000 a few years ago. So it must be more now

[-] MataVatnik@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Yeah, death to America on their flag and all that. I'm talking about US presence in the sea. And that tanker is owned by a billionaire Israeli family business. Israel is using US as their personal police on top of the foreign aid they already receive, I'm fucking sick of it.

[-] cooljacob204@kbin.social 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

The US navy combats piracy world wide. The destroyer's response has nothing to do with it being an Israeli tanker.

[-] sollerona@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 9 months ago

regarding the current genocide, it does

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