Houthi Rebels, Escalating the Battle of the Red Sea, Launch a Cruise Missile at United States Ship Laboon

The attempt on Yank destroyer, foiled by an American warplane, is the first since the allied air strikes began against Houthi redoubts.

U.S. Navy via Wikimedia Commons
A guided-missile destroyer, U.S.S. Laboon, arrives at Naval Station Norfolk in 2011. U.S. Navy via Wikimedia Commons

JERUSALEM — Yemen’s Houthi rebels fired an anti-ship cruise missile toward an American destroyer in the Red Sea but a fighter jet shot it down in the latest attack roiling global shipping amid Israel’s war with Hamas in the Gaza Strip, officials said.

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