The US Central Command confirmed a tanker was hit by a missile shot from Houthi-controlled Yemen on Monday, the first direct hit on a ship since the war began two months ago. The tanker was “attacked” by “an Anti-Ship Cruise Missile launched from a Houthi controlled area of Yemen” while passing through the Bab Al Mandeb, Centcom said in a post on X, formerly Twitter, this morning. The Strinda is a Norway-flagged oil tanker, according to maritime records, and was traveling from Malaysia to the Suez Canal.
