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[NY Post] The US Navy intercepted a barrage of Houthi missiles and drones launched at three of its warships in the Red Sea on Thursday, US defense officials said.
The attack was one of the largest yet on US warships in the Middle East, one official told CNN.
“We did see a complex attack launched from the Houthis that ranged from cruise missiles and [drones],” deputy Pentagon spokesperson Sabrina Singh said during a briefing.
“My understanding is that those were either engaged and shot down or failed.”
No US warships were damaged or struck in the assault, nor were any American servicemembers injured, she added.
The barrage was launched at the USS Spruance and USS Stockdale — both guided missile destroyers — and the USS Indianapolis, a littoral combat ship, as they traveled north of the Bab el-Mandeb strait.
The Houthi navy, air force and missile force launched 23 projectiles, including ballistic missiles, cruise missiles and drones, the spokesperson for the Iranian-backed rebels said.
Saree said the operation made “direct hits,” a claim Singh rejected, adding that it was unclear if the warships were the intended targets.
“Sometimes it’s hard to tell whether they’re being shot in the vicinity of a US ship or targeting another vessel. We always take measures for our self-defense, so I can’t really tell you the intended target,” she explained.
“We did what we had to do to protect our forces, and at the end of the day, no ship was hit, no damage, and no injuries to our personnel.”
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[Regnum] Yemeni Houthis from the Ansar Allah movement launched a massive attack on three US Navy destroyers, said the movement's spokesman Yahya Sari.
The strike involved 23 cruise and ballistic missiles, he said.
"The Yemeni armed forces attacked three enemy American destroyers in the Red Sea that were heading to support the Israeli enemy. The operation was carried out using 23 ballistic and cruise missiles, as well as one drone," Saria said on Al Masirah TV channel.
A Houthi spokesman also said all three destroyers had been damaged.
Earlier, Ansar Allah also announced that it had launched missile strikes on Tel Aviv and Ashkelon. Israeli media reported that the attack had been repelled. The Houthis stressed that they would continue to strike until Israel stopped its attacks on Palestine and Lebanon.
As reported by Regnum News Agency, the Israeli army (IDF) announced on September 23 that it was expanding the area of strikes against Hezbollah targets in Lebanon. IDF Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi announced the start of a "preemptive military operation" against the Shiite movement, whose military infrastructure, according to him, has been built over the past 20 years.
Moscow strongly condemns Israel's large-scale military attacks on Lebanon, said Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova. Indiscriminate attacks that target civilians are unacceptable, Zakharova stressed.
The conflict risks spreading to the entire Middle East and drawing into the confrontation even those powers that have tried with all their might to maintain neutrality or reconcile the opponents, but neither side is still willing to give in, noted Leonid Tsukanov, a columnist for Regnum News Agency, in his article earlier.
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