Israeli-owned ship ‘targeted in suspected Iranian drone attack in Indian Ocean’

Israeli-owned ship ‘targeted in suspected Iranian drone attack in Indian Ocean’
The CMA CGM Symi at Mokpo, South Korea, in 2022 (Vladimir Tonic via AP)

A container ship owned by an Israeli billionaire has come under attack by a suspected Iranian drone in the Indian Ocean as Israel wages war on Hamas in the Gaza Strip, an American defence official said.

The attack on the CMA CGM Symi comes as global shipping increasingly finds itself targeted in the war that threatens to become a wider regional conflict – even as a truce has halted fighting and Hamas exchanges hostages for Palestinian prisoners held by Israel.

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