{"id":8968,"date":"2023-12-23T16:56:44","date_gmt":"2023-12-23T16:56:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=8968"},"modified":"2023-12-23T16:56:44","modified_gmt":"2023-12-23T16:56:44","slug":"israel-affiliated-vessel-hit-by-aerial-vehicle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2023\/12\/23\/israel-affiliated-vessel-hit-by-aerial-vehicle\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel-affiliated Vessel Hit by Aerial Vehicle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Sudan Events \u2013 Sumaya Sayed<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>An Israel-affiliated merchant vessel in the Arabian Sea off India\u2019s west coast was struck by an unmanned aerial vehicle, causing a fire, British maritime security firm Ambrey said on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The fire on the Liberian-flagged chemical products tanker was extinguished without crew casualties in the incident 200 kilometers (120 miles) southwest of Veraval, India, it said.<br \/>\n\u201cSome structural damage was also reported and some water was taken onboard. The vessel was Israel-affiliated. She had last called Saudi Arabia and was destined for India at the time,\u201d the firm said on its website.<br \/>\nAn Indian Navy official said that it responded to a request for assistance on Saturday morning. \u201cThe safety of crew and ship has been ascertained. The Navy has also dispatched a warship to arrive in the area and provide assistance as required,\u201d the official said, declining to be named as he was not authorized to discuss the incident.<br \/>\nIt follows drone and missile attacks in the Red Sea by Iran-backed Houthis, who say they are supporting Palestinians under siege by Israel in the Gaza Strip, on commercial shipping, forcing shippers to change course and take longer routes around the southern tip of Africa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sudan Events \u2013 Sumaya Sayed An Israel-affiliated merchant vessel in the Arabian Sea off India\u2019s west coast was struck by an unmanned aerial vehicle, causing a fire, British maritime security firm Ambrey said on Saturday. The fire on the Liberian-flagged chemical products tanker was extinguished without crew casualties in the incident 200 kilometers (120 miles) &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":8969,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international","category-news-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8968"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8968\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8970,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8968\/revisions\/8970"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}