According to various media outlets, the container ship operated by A.P. Moller-Maersk was targeted in a missile attack near the Red Sea on Thursday.
Some media alleged that the missile was fired from Yemen towards the container ship.
The container ship named Maersk Gibraltar was on its way from Salalah to Jeddah in the Baab al-Mandab Strait at the entrance to the Red Sea, the Associated Press reported.
A US defense official claimed that the ship had earlier received a radio request, asking it to alter course to Yemen; then, a missile missed the container vessel, according to AP.
A former naval commander of the Israeli regime recently admitted that the regime’s shipping line is under naval blockade by the Yemeni armed forces.
The Yemeni army announced that they would target any Israeli or Israel-bound ships in the Red Sea in response to the regime’s war crimes in the Gaza Strip.
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