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The crew of a bulk cargo carrier that was damaged in a missile attack by Yemen’s Huthi rebels in the Gulf of Aden has abandoned the ship, the US military said Saturday.
The Huthis have been targeting vessels in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden since November 2023 in attacks they say are in solidarity with Palestinians during the Israel-Hamas war in the Gaza Strip.
Those attacks surged this week.
The crew of the M/V Verbena — a Palauan-flagged, Ukrainian-owned, Polish-operated ship — issued a distress call because it could not control fires touched off by the attack with two cruise missiles from the Iran-backed rebels on Thursday, US Central Command said.
