Social media accounts recently posted a video showing a damaged ship, claiming that it was an American destroyer targeted by the Houthis with a missile off the coast of Yemen.
Kashif verified the video via “Google Images” tool and found that it is old and wrongly linked to the two American destroyers that the Houthis recently targeted in the Gulf of Aden. The video shows an American destroyer damaged as a result of a collision with a Philippine-flagged ship off the southwestern coast of Japan in June 2017.
CBS New York posted the video on YouTube on 17/6/2017, with the following title: “Navy crew members injured in collision,” and the channel stated in the video description: “Seven U.S. Navy sailors are missing and two others injured after a U.S. destroyer collided early Saturday morning with a merchant ship off the coast of Japan.”
BBC also published the video on 17/6/2017, stating that it was of a US Navy ship that had been severely damaged in a collision with a Philippine-flagged ship off the southwest coast of Japan.
The US Navy and the Japanese Coast Guard announced on Saturday 17/6/2017 that the US destroyer USS Fitzgerald collided with the Philippine-flagged ship ACX Crystal, while it was 56 nautical miles southwest of the Japanese city of Yokosuka, resulting in the loss of seven American sailors, and the injury of their commander and two crew members.
The spokesman for the Yemeni Armed Forces, Brigadier General Yahya Saree, announced in a statement via his X account on 10/12/2024 “targeting two American destroyers and three accompanying supply ships in the Gulf of Aden and targeting the “Jaffa and Ashkelon” areas.”
