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- Yemen’s Houthi rebels likely launched the aerial drone that damaged a ship in the Red Sea on Sunday, the Associated Press reported, citing maritime officials.
- The attack occurred around dawn off the coast of the rebel-held port city of Hodeida, according to the British military’s United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations center. The vessel sustained damage but its crew was reported to be safe, it said.
- The damaged ship is a Liberia-flagged container ship bound for Qingdao, China, according to private-security firm Ambrey.
- The Houthis didn’t immediately say they were responsible, but it can take hours or days for them to acknowledge their assaults, the Associated Press reported.
- The United States recently sent the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower back home after an eight-month deployment in response to the Houthi assaults.