The U.S. Navy captured a group of armed assailants who seized a tanker in the Gulf of Aden on Monday, disrupting the latest in a series of attacks on commercial shipping in the Red Sea and the adjoining gulf amid the ongoing war between Israel and Hamas. The failed hijack is the latest in a series of attacks against commercial ships in the Middle East amid the Israel-Hamas war. On Friday, the container ship CMA CGM Symi was attacked by a suspected Iranian drone. According to the Associated Press, the container is owned by Israeli billionaire Idan Ofer, Eyal’s younger brother. Last week, a cargo ship, Galaxy Leader, was seized by armed Houthi rebels in a dramatic helicopter-borne assault. The ship had no Israeli crew and the country’s government said it was British-owned and Japanese-operated.
