Aerial look at of a tanker.
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Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthis explained on Saturday that they experienced fired missiles at oil tanker Pollux, which U.S. officers mentioned the earlier working day experienced been hit by a missile.
The U.S. Condition Division reported on Friday that the Pollux, a Panamanian-flagged tanker carrying crude oil sure for India, was hit by a missile on its port facet.
“The naval forces of the Yemeni Armed Forces carried out a targeting operation from a British oil ship (Pollux) in the Purple Sea with a big number of appropriate naval missiles, and the strikes have been exact and immediate”, the Houthis’ army spokesperson, Yahya Sarea, said in a assertion.
The Houthis have introduced recurring drone and missile assaults versus international industrial delivery in the Crimson Sea and the Bab al-Mandab Strait because mid-November, declaring they are acting in solidarity with Palestinians as Israel wages war on Hamas.