Yemen mission
US fighter jet “accidentally” shot down over the Red Sea
This is probably called “friendly fire”: A US military missile cruiser stationed in the Red Sea took down its own fighter plane from the sky. The pilots apparently got off lightly.
Two US Navy pilots in a fighter jet were shot down over the Red Sea on Sunday morning – apparently by US forces.
Both pilots were rescued alive, but initial assessments indicated that one of the crew members “suffered minor injuries,” said the US Central Command (Centcom), which is responsible for the Middle East. “This incident was not the result of enemy fire and a full investigation is underway,” Centcom continued.
The guided missile cruiser “USS Gettysburg” “accidentally” fired at the F/A-18 multi-role fighter jet flown by Navy pilots from the aircraft carrier “USS Harry S. Truman” – and hit it, it said.
US forces attacked Houthi positions
US forces have repeatedly attacked Houthi targets in recent months to curb their ability to attack merchant ships in the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden.
On Saturday, the US Army reported attacks on targets held by the Houthi militia in Yemen’s capital Sanaa. Shortly before, several people were injured in a rocket attack by the Houthi militia in the Israeli city of Tel Aviv.
Like the Lebanese Hezbollah, the Houthi militia is part of the self-proclaimed “Axis of Resistance” led by Iran and directed against Israel, which also includes the Islamist Palestinian organization Hamas in the Gaza Strip.
The group, which has controlled large parts of Yemen for years, has repeatedly attacked ships in the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden since the beginning of the Gaza war triggered by the Hamas attack on Israel, according to its own statements “out of solidarity” with the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.
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Source: Stern
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