The U.S. Navy destroyer USS Gravely intercepted anti-ship ballistic missiles headed toward the commercial ship Maersk Detroit Wednesday. This is the first attack by the Houthis in six days.

The targeting of another U.S.-owned commercial ship Wednesday shows the militant group remains intent on continuing its attacks in the face of multiple rounds of U.S. military airstrikes.

The Houthis launched anti-ship ballistic missiles at the U.S.-owned, flagged and operated commercial ship Maersk Detroit as it was transiting the Gulf of Aden, according to a statement from the U.S. Central Command. The U.S. Navy destroyer USS Gravely shot down two missiles and a third fell into the water. There were no indications of damage or injuries in the attack.

The U.S. military has been conducting airstrikes against the Houthis to degrade their capabilities since Jan.11, after several weeks of attacks on commercial ships by the militant group.

  • @Linkerbaan@lemmy.worldEnglish
    -36•5 months ago

    Saying that you support the Houthis in their efforts to stop genocide does not mean you agree with everything they stand for.

    You don’t have to unequivocally support a group to encorse one specific action.

    • Heresy_generator
      53•5 months ago

      Attacking civilian ships with civilian crews does nothing to stop genocide; it’s just terrorism.

        • splicerslicerEnglish
          13•5 months ago

          By that definition my company toyota Corolla is a valid military target. My brother in Christ Google the definition of “civilian”. Literally anyone or anything not government related qualifies. These ships have “relations” with almost every country, that’s how international commerce works you dumbass.

          • @Linkerbaan@lemmy.worldEnglish
            -5•5 months ago

            That’s absolutely false all the targets were directly linked with israel. And now it’s expanded to include all countries that fired missles on Yemen.

            Try smuggling goods into Iran or Russia with your Toyota Corolla and if you get caught tell them you are driving a civilian vehicle. I hear that makes everything legal.

            If you’re delivering supplies to a Nazi group committing genocide you’re not called a “civilian”.

            The Yemeni have designed it terrorist ships. Contrary to everything you believe America isn’t the only nation in the world able to design targets as terror.

          • @Linkerbaan@lemmy.worldEnglish
            -7•5 months ago

            Genocide stops == Houthis blockade lifts.

            That easy. Instead of trying to be a genocide enabler consider criticizing the israelis that just shot a tank at 20 Palestinians waiting in line for food aid.

      • @naturalgasbad@lemmy.caEnglish
        -22•5 months ago

        Maersk said both vessels carried cargo belonging to the U.S. Defense and State Departments, as well as other government agencies, meaning they were “afforded the protection of the U.S. Navy for passage through the strait.”

        Don’t fall for propaganda like a dumbass. These two ships were carrying DOD cargo.

        • @Jimmyeatsausage@lemmy.worldEnglish
          6•5 months ago

          Good point. The civilian sailors clearly deserve it. After all, they get to pick and choose which cargo they carry… just like the Palestinians got to pick their own government and chose terrorists.

          If they were good little wage-slaves, they’d have quit and starved until they found a morally pure capitalist to work for.

              • @Linkerbaan@lemmy.worldEnglish
                -11•5 months ago

                Poor civilian oil tankers transporting oil to a nation committing genocide :( if only there was a way they could safely pass again. How about not committing genocide?

                • @TangledHyphae@lemmy.worldEnglish
                  5•5 months ago

                  I am genuinely perplexed at the amount of mental gymnastics you are doing to justify attacking civilian ships from other countries that are not enemy combatants. Incredible Olympic display of psychological back-flips.

                  • @lemmerguy@lemmy.worldEnglish
                    -4•5 months ago

                    Here’s a simple take , stop bombing women and children , and they’ll stop attacking civilian ships , is that complicated for you? They are a militant group, do you think they care about rules in combat?, I mean they are doing way better than Israel at this point.

      • @Linkerbaan@lemmy.worldEnglish
        -6•5 months ago

        I don’t recall the Houthis ever blockading the red sea before.

        Somalia had some pirates but that was just literal theft and extortion. And that’s not the Houthis.

        Mind linking what you are talking about?

        • @Bartsbigbugbag@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1•5 months ago

          Somalian Pirates were actually often protecting their territorial waters from foreign opportunists plundering in the collapse of the Somalian government. The framing as pirates only works in the sense that these weren’t state-driven fleets, but rather civilian driven in order to protect their livelihoods against corporate raiders.

        • @supercriticalcheese@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1•5 months ago

          It’s a militia islamic militia, do you think they haven’t done the same thing as Israel does to their population, or a subset of their population?

          It’s just a way to grab the attention span of everyone which helps their recruitment.

          • @Linkerbaan@lemmy.worldEnglish
            -4•5 months ago

            You’re really trying to defend israel’s genocide in any possible way. “No they allowed to stop genocide, they are the bad guys!”

            I’m not here to simp for whatever war crimes they did internally. Just this specific action isn’t one you should denounce.

            There was a Houthi spokesperson on BBC. They told him the same thing. His response was very simple.

            If other groups want to enhance their popularity by stopping genocide they’re very welcome to do so.

            How about you go stop israel’s genocide if you don’t want the Houthi’s to do it?

            https://youtu.be/z4HguzMRW1M