The Pentagon reported on Sunday that a United States Navy ship and several commercial vessels were attacked in the Red Sea.
The attack comes as Yemen’s Houthi rebel group announced that it had targeted two Israeli ships that were located in the area.
“We’re aware of reports regarding attacks on the USS Carney and commercial vessels in the Red Sea and will provide information as it becomes available later,” the Pentagon said in a statement.
According to the Pentagon, the attacks on the commercial ships lasted for several hours and are believed to have been from Houthi missiles.
The Pentagon has not shared where the attacks on the USS Carney, a naval destroyer, originated from.
The Houthi group, which is Iran-backed, shared a statement on the incident Sunday, saying it launched missile and drone attacks against two ships it believed were connected to Israel.
“The Yemeni armed forces continue to prevent Israeli ships from navigating the Red and Arab Seas until the Israeli aggression against our steadfast brothers in the Gaza Strip stops,” the Houthis said.
The statement from the group made no mention of any attacks on US ships, only the vessels “Unity Explorer” and the “Number Nine,” which the group said are associated with Israel.
The Pentagon said that the USS Carney observed a ballistic missile fired at the Unity Explorer, which it described as a civilian commercial ship.
The Carney responded to distress reports from the Unity Explorer and assisted when it destroyed another Houthi drone headed towards itself and the other ship.
Yemen’s military has made it known that it would treat all Israeli ships or entities connected to the country as a “legitimate target” for attack until the war in Gaza ended.
The report also comes a week after the USS Mason had ballistic missiles fired at it after it helped a commercial vessel that was “under attack by an unknown entity,” the US Central Command shared in a statement.