Yahya Saree is quoted by the Al-Masirah news network that the Yemeni forces engaged with a number of US destroyers and warships in the Gulf of Aden and the Strait of Bab al-Mandab.
The forces reported striking the American warships and destroyers with the projectiles as they were providing protection for two American commercial vessels sailing through the strategic waterway.
"Despite attempts by the warships to intercept them, our ballistic missiles reached their targets successfully," Saree said.
“A number of ballistic missiles directly hit the warship while two American commercial vessels escaped from the scene”, he said., adding that the conflict lasted for 2 hours.
US central command or CENTCOM or a recently formed US-led coalition to protect Israeli interests in the Red Sea have not commented on the Yemeni attack on a warship.
Meanwhile, Saree reiterated his earlier statement that the Yemeni armed forces will keep preventing the movement of Israeli ships in the Red Sea until the end of the regime’s invasion of Gaza and the lifting of the blockade on the Palestinian territory.
For over the past month, Yemenis have been staging strikes against Israeli vessels or those bound for ports in the occupied Palestinian territories.
The United States and Britain have launched several rounds of aerial strikes on Yemen over the past two weeks in response to the Arab country’s anti-Israeli operations in the Gulf of Aden and the Strait of Bab al-Mandab Strait.
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