Merchant ship hit by missile off the coast of Yemen. There was an explosion on board the ship.
Just a short time before, the US military had intercepted another missile. The Iran-backed Houthi militias in Yemen have attacked numerous ships in the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden that they accuse of having ties to Israel. The militia sees itself as part of the self-proclaimed “Axis of Resistance,” which is directed against Israel and supported by Iran and to which the Islamist Hamas in the Gaza Strip also belongs.