Fighter aircraft of the US Armed Forces. mistakenly shot down one of its fighters over the Red Sea in a “friendly fire” incident, Causing minor injuries to one of the plane’s two pilots, according to U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM).

The damaged aircraft was Model of an F/A-18 aircraft taking off from the aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman, and that it was “fired upon and hit by mistake” by the guided-missile cruiser USS Gettysburg, part of the USS Harry S. Truman’s own strike group.

The incident occurred on Saturday morning, although CENTCOM He didn’t make it public until late that night.

Earlier, on the same Saturday, the US military conducted Houthi militias’ missile depot and command center ‘deliberately’ bombed in Sanaa, Yemen’s capital, to “thwart Houthi operations such as attacks on US Navy ships and commercial vessels in the southern Red Sea, Bab al-Mandeb and Gulf of Aden.”

The Houthis, who have controlled Yemen’s capital Sanaa and other areas in the north and west of the country since 2015, launched several attacks on Israeli territory and on ships with some connection to Israel as a result of the offensive launched against the Gaza Strip following the attacks carried out on October 7, 2023 by the Islamist group Hamas.

Likewise, the rebels attacked American and British ships and drones in response to these countries’ bombings against Yemen. Washington and London say they are acting to protect free navigation in the Red Sea, Gulf of Aden and Indian Ocean.

(Europe Press)