The US military’s Central Command (CENTCOM) said that it shot down 18 Houthi “one way attack” aerial drones, two anti-ship cruise missiles and one anti-ship ballistic missile over the southern Red Sea, preventing a “complex attack” that threatened dozens of vessels in international shipping lanes.
The attack on Tuesday was the 26th launched by the Yemen-based Houthis on shipping lanes in the Red Sea since November 19 in protest of Israel’s war on Gaza.
Fighter jets from the US’s Dwight D Eisenhower aircraft carrier and four destroyers, including one from the UK, took part in the operation, according to CENTCOM.
The US last month formed a maritime coalition to combat the attacks in the vital international shipping route.
Al Jazeera’s Heidi Zhou-Castro has more from Washington, DC.
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