A sailor has been seriously injured and has been evacuated by a United States helicopter.
Yemen’s Houthi rebels launched two missiles from the cruiser in it Golfo de Adencatching up with a commercial ship.
The bombing caused the boat, called Verbena, to catch fire. One of the sailors turned out seriously injured according to the authorities. The man was transported by a American helicopter to another nearby ship for medical treatment, according to US Central Command.
Central Command said in a statement that the Verbena, a Palau-flagged dry cargo ship, owned by Ukraine and operated by Polandtraveled to Italia with a cargo of wood and his crew is still trying to extinguish the fire.
Two other ships attacked in the Red Sea
The Houthis later confirmed the attack on the Verbena, as well as two other ships in the Red Sea. The two ballistic missiles launched in the Red Sea They did not cause “significant casualties or damage”according to the US Army.
Meanwhile, the directors of six UN agencies and three international humanitarian organizations issued a joint appeal to Yemeni rebels on Thursday. They called for the immediate release of 17 staff members who had recently been detained by the Houthi group, backed by Iran.
The European Union takes a position
His call was supported by several dozen countries and by the European Union before a meeting UN Security Council about Yemen. In it, UN special envoy Hans Grundberg stated that the Houthis had cut the detainees’ ties with the world.
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In turn, the Houthis declared this week that they had detained members of a “American-Israeli spy network”. The head of Houthi Intelligence explained that the spy network It initially operated from the US embassy in the capital, Sana’a.
After it was closed in 2015 following the Houthis’ takeover of Sanaa and northern Yemen, he said, spies continued “subversive activities under the cover of international organizations and of the HIM“The Houthi claims have not been able to be independently verified.
