The United States shoots down a ballistic missile and three Iranian drones launched by the Houthis in the Gulf of Aden

The United States government has announced that this is the case shot a ballistic missiles and three Iranian drones launched from areas of Yemen controlled by the Houthi rebels in the Gulf of Aden after the rebellion claimed an attack heart attack against a US ship in the Red Sea, amid an increase in attacks on ships in the area in retaliation for the situation in the Gaza Strip.

The United States Central Command (CENTCOM) has specified that the destroyer “USS Carney” shot down an anti-ship missile around 8:30 PM (local time) and then destroyed three unmanned aerial vehicles at 9:10 PM. Iranians, without any casualties or damage.

Earlier, around 3:30 p.m., CENTCOM indicated that U.S. forces had shot down a surface-to-air missile “that it was prepared to be launched” and that it had determined that it “posed an imminent threat to US aircraft,” DICE said in a statement published on its profile on the social network X, formerly Twitter.

For his part, the spokesman for the Houthis’ military operations, Yahy Sari, has indicated that they are directly a American ship“Cole,” who was “en route to the ports of occupied Palestine.”

The Iran-backed rebels, who have controlled the Yemeni capital Sanaa and other areas in the north and west of the country since 2015, have different attacks against ships with any connection to Israel as a result of the military offensive against the Gaza Strip, which was initiated after the October 7 attacks by the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas).