The Houthis target an American ship in Bab al-Mandab

2024-03-06T21:25:41.990Z

Highlights: The Houthis target an American ship in Bab al-Mandab. According to navigational data, the ship "MV True Confidence" was coming from one of the ports in eastern China, heading to the port of Jeddah in Saudi Arabia. It is noteworthy that the Ansar Allah Al-Houthi group launched approximately 30 missile and drone attacks on a number of Israeli ships or those heading to and from Israel in the Red Sea from mid-November until mid-January.

The Ansar Allah group (Houthis) announced that it had targeted a cargo ship flying the Barbados flag and owned by an American company with a ballistic missile, 70 nautical miles away in Bab al-Mandab, southwest of Aden in Yemen.