{"id":210620,"date":"2025-12-30T02:14:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T02:14:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/210620\/"},"modified":"2025-12-30T02:14:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T02:14:11","slug":"us-military-says-two-were-killed-in-strike-on-suspected-drug-vessel-in-pacific-us-military","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/210620\/","title":{"rendered":"US military says two were killed in strike on suspected drug vessel in Pacific | US military"},"content":{"rendered":"

The US military<\/a> announced the killing of another two men in \u201ca lethal kinetic strike\u201don a boat suspected of carrying drugs in international waters in the eastern Pacific Ocean on Monday.<\/p>\n

The Pentagon released video of the strike<\/a>, which brings the total number of known naval attacks on suspected drug smugglers to 30 since September, and raises the death toll<\/a> to at least 107 people, according to US military figures.<\/p>\n

The attack was carried out \u201cat the direction of\u201d Pete Hegseth<\/a>, the defense secretary, US Southern Command said in a post on X, the Elon Musk-owned social media platform where images of the attacks have been posted.<\/p>\n

\u201cIntelligence confirmed the vessel was transiting along known narco-trafficking routes in the Eastern Pacific and was engaged in narco-trafficking operations,\u201d the military said. \u201cNo US military<\/a> forces were harmed.\u201d<\/p>\n

Donald Trump<\/a> has justified the attacks on suspected drug smugglers with the false claim that each shipment would have led to the deaths of 25,000 Americans.<\/p>\n

Over the weekend, the president told<\/a> a supporter on a New York radio show that the US had<\/a> \u201cknocked out \u2026 a big plant, or a big facility \u2026 where the ships come from\u201d in Venezuela last week, a strike that was not disclosed, if it happened.<\/p>\n

Asked by reporters on Monday about those remarks, Trump insisted that the strike had taken place. \u201cThere was a major explosion in the dock area where they load the boats up with drugs,\u201d Trump told reporters ahead of a lunch for<\/a> Israel\u2019s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, in Florida. Trump, the White House and the Pentagon have provided no other details. \u201cSo we hit all the boats and now we hit the area,\u201d the president said, \u201cit\u2019s the implementation area, that\u2019s where they implement, and that is no longer around.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The US military announced the killing of another two men in \u201ca lethal kinetic strike\u201don a boat suspected…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":210621,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-210620","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210620\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/210621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}