Yahya Saree, the spokesman of the Yemeni armed forces, announced the targeting of the American ship in the first response to the recent CENTCOM attack on the country's navy.

Afghan Voice Agency (AVA): "Yahi Saree", the spokesman of the Yemeni armed forces, announced yesterday (Wednesday) in a statement: Our naval forces, missile force, as well as our drone force, with God's help, in a joint military operation with a large number of missiles. Ballistics and drones targeted an American ship that was helping the Zionist regime.

He emphasized: This operation was the initial response to the US aggression against our naval forces.

The spokesman of the Yemeni armed forces recently announced that "American enemy forces attacked three boats and martyred 10 of our forces."

Centcom also announced this morning that the Yemeni army targeted a ship in the south of the Red Sea in a combined operation with cruise missiles, anti-ship ballistic missiles and drones.

The American Central Command claimed that the American and British forces shot down 18 drones, 2 cruise missiles and one ballistic missile of the Yemeni army, and these attacks did not cause material or human casualties.

The spokesman of the Yemeni armed forces continued his statement today and added: "The Yemeni armed forces will not hesitate to properly deal with all the hostile threats against the country, the people and the Islamic Ummah in line with the right to defend themselves."

Yahya Saree also noted: Yemeni armed forces will continue to block Zionist ships and all ships that go to occupied Palestinian ports in the Red Sea and the Arabian Sea until the aggressions stop and the siege of our brothers in the Gaza Strip ends.

He also emphasized on the continuation of shipping in the Red Sea and the Arabian Sea to all destinations except the ports of the occupied territories.

Earlier, "Syed Abdul Malik Badr al-Din al-Houthi", the leader of Yemen's Ansarullah movement, said that "the treacherous aggression of the United States against a group of heroes of the Yemeni Navy will not go unanswered."

The leader of Ansarullah added: The Zionist regime and the United States are participating in the killing of the Palestinian people with all their weapons and with political cover and media support.