Responsibility for an attack against a merchant ship in the Red Sea, and for a drone strike in southern Israel, the Houthis took over on Tuesday.

Representative the Houthis announced that the merchant ship, MSC United“targeted with appropriate naval missiles after ignoring three warning calls.”

According to Al Jazeera, the Houthi spokesman added that drone strikes were also carried out againstof the city of Eliat in southern Israel and “other areas in occupied Palestine”.

The Houthis, who control much of Yemen, have been disrupting international trade for weekslaunching attacks on merchant ships passing through the Bab al-Mandab strait, at the southern end of the Red Sea, in what they say is a response to Israel’s war on Gaza.

What the British Maritime Authority said

Red Sea eruptions, off the coast of Yemen, they reported Tuesday, after they were spotted drones and missiles in two separate incidents, a British shipping authority announced earlier on Tuesday.

Two drones were spotted before two explosions occurred within 5 nautical miles of a ship, which was sailing 50 nautical miles west of Hodeidah on Yemen’s west coast, the UK Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) said.

In another incident, an explosion was heard and rockets were seen within 4 nautical miles from a ship 60 nautical miles from Hodeidah, according to principle. Another explosion was reported 0.5 nautical miles from the same ship, according to the same source.

It is currently unclear whether in the incidents involved the same ship, which the authority did not name. Details of the cargo or an indication of where the ship or ships were headed or from where they had sailed were also not given.

In both incidents the ship and crew are safeaccording to the same source.

British authorities have not said where the drones or missiles came from, and there is no immediate claim of responsibility.