DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — A container ship owned by an Israeli billionaire came under attack by a thought Iranian drone in the Indian Ocean as Israel earnings war on Hamas in the Gaza Strip, an American defense authorities stated Saturday.
The attack Friday on the CMA CGM Symi comes as worldwide shipping significantly discovers itself targeted in the weekslong war that threatens to endedupbeing a broader local dispute — even as a truce has halted battling and Hamas exchanges captives for Palestinian detainees held by Israel.
The defense main, who spoke to The Associated Press on condition of privacy to goover intelligence matters, stated the Malta-flagged vessel was presumed to haveactually been targeted by a triangle-shaped, bomb-carrying Shahed-136 drone while in worldwide waters. The drone blewup, triggering damage to the ship however not hurting any of its team.
“We continue to screen the circumstance carefully,” the authorities stated. The authorities decreased to fancy on what intelligence the U.S. military collected to evaluate that Iran was behind the attack, though authorities suspect Tehran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard brought out the attack.
The exactsame drones haveactually been utilized by Russia in its war on Ukraine, as justrecently as in a barrage introduced Saturday that Kyiv explained as Moscow’s greatest drone attack because the war started.
Al-Mayadeen, a pan-Arab satellite channel that is politically allied with the Iranian-backed Lebanese militant group Hezbollah, reported that an Israeli ship hadactually been targeted in the Indian Ocean. The channel pointedout confidential sources for the report, which Iranian media lateron mentioned.
CMA CGM, a significant carrier based in Marseille, France, referred concerns to the Symi’s owner, Singapore-based Eastern Pacific Shipping. That business is eventually managed by Israeli billionaire Idan Ofer.
A declaration released on behalf of Eastern Pacific acknowledged the business being “aware of declares that a container ship under the business’s management was targeted in a possible security incide