US Central Command says Iranian-backed Houthi small boats attacked a merchant vessel and US Navy helicopters in the southern Red Sea. The US military says the Maersk Hangzhou issued a second distress call in less than 24 hours when Houthis opened fire and attempted to board the vessel. US forces returned fire on the Houthi boats, sinking three of the vessels with no survivors, the US military says. Meanwhile, a Hamas armed wing commander who was the right-hand man to Hamas’s chief bomb-maker decades ago was killed in an Israeli strike in Gaza. Israel claims many rockets fired by Hezbollah towards the country have fallen short and landed in Lebanon, including 80 percent of those fired on December 30.
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