Alwaght- A US guided-missile destroyer has escaped a missile attack off Yemen’s shore.
"USS Mason detected two inbound missiles over a 60-minute period while in the Red Sea off the coast of Yemen. Both missiles impacted the water before reaching the ship,” Pentagon spokesman Captain Jeff Davis said early Monday.
"There were no injuries to our sailors and no damage to the ship,” he said.
The news comes two days after US-backed Saudi Arabia's deadly attack on a funeral gathering in the Yemeni capital Sana’a killed over 140 civilians and injured 700 more.
The horrifying attack sparked outrage in international community, with many known faces verbalizing their anger over the massacre that took place on Saturday at a crowded reception hall.
The US Senator Chris Murphy on Sunday called on the Obama administration to remove all support for Saudi Arabia.
"The administration should pull U.S. support for the Saudi-led war in Yemen because it's harming America's national security, enabling terrorist groups to thrive, and killing innocent civilians," he said.
Murphy, a liberal member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, has led a bipartisan push to cut military aid for the oil-rich Saudi regime due to their attacks on civilians. That effort has failed so because Al Saud dynasty is a critical ally that spares no effort to serve Americans interests in the West Asian region.
Saudi Arabia started daily airstrikes against the Yemeni people since March 2015, in an attempt to reinstate its ally Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi who resigned as Yemeni president and fled took refuge in Riyadh. The United Nations puts the death toll from the military aggression at over 10,000.
