White House: We do not want to go to war with the Houthis

According to Fars News Agency International Group, John Kirby, the coordinator of strategic affairs in the National Security Council of the White House, said on Sunday that America does not want to go to war with the Houthis and it is better that their attacks stop.

He continued his speech and said: “We have great security interests in the Middle East and we will deploy the military to support it and act accordingly in the future.”

It was this afternoon that the Central Command of the US Army in West Asia, known as CENTCOM, reacted to the incident near Yemen’s Hodeida port by publishing a statement and announced that the boats belonging to the “Houthis of Yemen” attacked a container ship. And US Navy helicopters attacked in the south of the Red Sea.

Centcom said in this statement that a container ship belonging to “Maersk” shipping company made two emergency calls that it was attacked by 4 boats belonging to the Yemeni Houthis. has taken.

This statement states; The crew of the boats shot at the Maersk ship with light weapons and advanced to a distance of 20 meters and were planning to enter the ship’s deck.

After these emergency calls, the American helicopters answered the call, came into action and these boats fired at them.

Centcom claims that US Navy helicopters responded to the fire of the boats in self-defense and sank three of the four small boats and the crew of the boats were also killed.

Centcom also claimed that there was no damage to American equipment and crew.

In recent weeks, parallel to the intensification of Israel’s attacks in Gaza, the Yemeni army attacked Israeli ships or ships destined for the occupied territories and intending to pass through the Bab al-Mandab strait in the Red Sea.

The attacks of the Yemeni army in the Red Sea began on November 19, and the Ansarullah movement has announced that it will continue until the Israeli attacks in Gaza stop. The American, British and French naval forces have each claimed to have shot down drones or missiles fired from Yemen.

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