MADRID, June 22 (EUROPA PRESS) -The Houthi insurgency in Yemen has announced that it has again attacked the American aircraft carrier ‘Dwight D. Eisenhower’ as it passes through the northern Red Sea.
“The American aircraft carrier ‘Eisenhower’ was attacked in the northern Red Sea with several ballistic and cruise missiles, and the operation was carried out successfully,” the usual military spokesman for the insurgents, Yahya Sarea, announced at a press conference.
The US Army has not yet commented on this incident. The last thing that was known about the aircraft carrier was that the Navy has ordered the ship to return to port after its mission in the area, which was extended on two occasions, the ‘Washington Post’ reports this Saturday.
Sources from the United States Naval Institute News Service have also confirmed that the aircraft carrier will return to Norfolk, Virginia, after eight months of combat deployment and that its place will be taken by another aircraft carrier that is operating in the Pacific, although it has not yet been announced. knows which one.
The Houthis already claimed on May 31 and then on June 2 that they had attacked this same aircraft carrier in response to the bombings carried out this morning by the United States and the United Kingdom against Yemen. These attacks were denied by the North American Army.
The Houthi spokesman has also announced another attack, a “qualitative military operation” against the Liberian-flagged ship ‘Transworld Navigator’ in the Arabian Sea.
“The ship was attacked by several ballistic missiles and hit directly, all because the company that owned it violated the (Houthi) decision to prohibit entry to the ports of occupied Palestine,” he said.
The insurgents, backed by Iran, have controlled Yemen’s capital, Sanaa, and areas of the country’s north and west since 2015. The rebels have responded to the Israeli offensive on Gaza with more than 60 attacks against ships with some type of connection to Israel. and they have assured that they guarantee the free navigation of the rest of the ships.
