TWO ships travelling in Middle East waters were attacked by suspected Yemeni drones early today, authorities said, the latest assaults in the Iranian-backed fighters’ campaign of targeting vessels over Israel’s war on Hamas in the Gaza Strip.

The attacks are the latest in the campaign by the Houthi-led Yemen government to target specific vessels over Israel’s war on the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.

The first attack happened in the southern part of the Red Sea, west of the Yemeni port of Hodeida, with the projectile causing “slight damage” to the vessel’s windows on the bridge, the United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations said. 

The private security firm Ambrey identified the vessel as the British-owned Morning Tide cargo ship. The firm said the vessel suffered “minor damage.”

A second ship was identified as the Marshall Islands-flagged, Greek-owned Star Nasia coming from the US heading to India.

Later, Yemeni military spokesman Brigadier General Yahya Saree claimed in a statement that his country’s forces had hit two separate vessels in the Red Sea. 

He said: “As a response to the US-British aggression on Yemen, the Yemeni Armed Forces’ Navy carried out two military operations in the Red Sea.”

In recent weeks, the US and Britain have launched air strikes targeting Yemeni missile arsenals and launch sites for its attacks.

The US and Britain struck 36 Houthi targets in Yemen on Saturday.

An air assault on Friday in Iraq and Syria targeted other local militias and the Iranian Revolutionary Guard in retaliation for a drone strike that killed three US troops in Jordan.