Madrid, June 22 (Europa Press) – The Houthi rebellion in Yemen has announced that it has again attacked the US aircraft carrier ‘Dwight D. Eisenhower’ while passing through the northern Red Sea. The ship abandoned the mission this Saturday and will be replaced by the ‘Theodore Roosevelt’.
“The US aircraft carrier ‘Eisenhower’ in the northern Red Sea was attacked with multiple ballistic and cruise missiles and the operation was carried out successfully,” the rebels’ general military spokesman Yahya Sareeya announced at a press conference.
The United States military has not commented on the incident, but said the ship is returning to the United States and will be replaced by the ‘USS Theodore Roosevelt’.
“Good winds and seas favored the aircraft carrier strike group ‘Dwight D. Eisenhower’ on its return home to its families,” the Central Command of the US Armed Forces has published. The group leaves the region after 30,000 hours of flight and a journey of 55,000 miles. He highlighted that “it has defended the freedom of navigation in the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden against” unprovoked attacks against innocent sailors by the Houthis “.
Sources from the United States Naval Institute news service specified that the aircraft carrier will return to Norfolk, Virginia, after an eight-month combat deployment.
The Houthis had already claimed on May 31 and then on June 2 that they had attacked the same aircraft carrier in response to the bombings carried out by the United States and the United Kingdom against Yemen earlier this morning. The North American military denied these attacks.
A Houthi spokesman also announced another attack, a “qualitative military operation” against the Liberian-flagged ship ‘Transworld Navigator’ in the Arabian Sea.
“The ship was attacked with multiple ballistic missiles and hit directly, all because the company that owns it violated the (Houthi) decision to ban its entry to the ports of occupied Palestine,” he said.
Rebels backed by Iran have controlled Yemen’s capital, Sanaa, and areas in the north and west of the country since 2015. The rebels have responded to Israeli attacks on Gaza with more than 60 attacks against ships with some form of connection to Israel. And they have given assurances that they guarantee the free navigation of the rest of the ships.