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Missile fired from rebel-controlled Yemen misses a container ship in Bab el-Mandeb Strait

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By JON GAMBRELL
Associated Press

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The U.S. military says a missile fired from territory controlled by Yemen’s Houthi rebels missed a container ship traveling through the crucial Bab el-Mandeb Strait. The attack is the latest threatening shipping in the crucial maritime chokepoint. The assaults have been part of the Houthis’ pressure campaign over the Israel-Hamas war raging in Gaza. The U.S. military says the missile fired on Thursday splashed harmlessly in the water near the Maersk Gibraltar, a Hong Kong-flagged container ship that had been traveling from Oman to Saudi Arabia. A Houthi spokesman claimed that the rebels had hit the Maersk Gibraltar after its crew allegedly failed to respond to the rebels’ call to surrender — without providing any evidence to support his claim.

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