Aerial view of an oil tanker.
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Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthis said Saturday they had fired missiles at the oil tanker Pollux, which U.S. officials said had been hit by a missile the day before.
The U.S. State Department announced Friday that the Pollux, a Panama-flagged tanker carrying crude oil bound for India, was hit by a missile on its port side.
“The naval forces of the Yemeni Armed Forces carried out a targeting operation against a British oil ship (Pollux) in the Red Sea with a large number of appropriate naval missiles, and the strikes were precise and direct,” the spokesperson said Houthi military. Yahya Sarea, said in a statement.
The Houthis have launched repeated drone and missile attacks on international commercial shipping in the Red Sea and Bab al-Mandab Strait since mid-November, claiming they were acting in solidarity with the Palestinians as Israel waging war against Hamas.