SANA’A (Palestine Foundation Information Center) The Yemeni armed forces claimed responsibility for the attack on a US-owned ship in the Gulf of Aden, which set fire to the ship and killed and injured some of its crew members on Wednesday.
The armed forces attacked US bulk carrier “True Confidence” in the Gulf of Aden, Yemeni army spokesperson Yehya Sariee said on Wednesday.
Sariee added that the armed forces struck the US ship with a number of appropriate naval missiles, resulting in a fire onboard.
“The operation was carried out after the crew of the US ship rejected warning messages from the Yemeni naval forces,” he stressed.
“Yemen’s armed forces reiterate that all ships must heed their warnings, and seafarers must evacuate immediately after the first strike.”
The spokesman affirmed that the armed forces would continue to “uphold their religious, moral, and humanitarian duties” in support of the oppressed Palestinian people and that their military operations in the Red Sea would not stop unless the Israeli occupation’s aggression against Gaza stops and its siege on the Gaza population is lifted.
For its part, the US military’s central command reported that three crew members were killed and at least four others were injured, three of them in critical condition, in the attack on the ship.
