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- Missiles were fired from Houthi-controlled territory toward a US Navy ship responding to an attempted hijacking on Monday.
- The ship, the destroyer USS Mason, was targeted by the Iran-backed rebels near Yemen a few years ago.
- The Houthis' involvement in the Israel-Hamas war has led the US to take defensive measures.
Missiles were fired from Houthi-controlled territory on Monday toward a US Navy destroyer that rescued a commercial vessel from an attempted hijacking off the coast of Yemen. It's the same American warship that the Iran-backed rebels targeted in the area a few years ago.