Yemen’s Houthis claimed they targeted and struck a UK vessel in the Red Sea with eight ballistic missiles and a drone.
The unverified claims suggested that the vessel had been heavily damaged in the attack.
The attacks are the rebels’ first assaults on commercial shipping in weeks as the Israel-Hamas war threatens to become a regional conflict.
They come as Israeli ground forces entered Lebanon after days of Israeli airstrikes that killed Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah and other top officials, and earlier explosions of sabotaged electronic devices used by the Shiite militia.
The Houthis threatened “escalating military operations” targeting Israel on Monday after they apparently shot down a US military drone flying over Yemen.
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