The Royal Navy's Maritime Merchant Operations (UKMTO) reported on its website that a ship caught fire off the coast of the UAE after being hit by a shell.
The incident occurred 11 nautical miles (20 km) east of Khor Fakkan in the UAE.
„UKMTO received a report that the ship had been hit by an unspecified shell, which resulted in a fire on board,“ the agency said.
Israel struck Iran's major South Pars gas field. The United States was informed of the strike plans but did not participate, a source told the Associated Press.
Axios, citing sources, reported that the strike was coordinated with the Trump administration.
According to the media, this is the first time that Israel has struck Iranian gas facilities. They are crucial to the Iranian economy, the publication added.
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian strongly condemned the attack on Iran's energy infrastructure on the social media platform X. These strikes, he wrote, "will complicate the situation and could have uncontrollable consequences, the scale of which could encompass the entire world."
US President Donald Trump wants to stop attacks on Iranian energy facilities after Israel struck Iranian gas facilities on March 18, The Wall Street Journal reported, citing US officials.
The newspaper wrote that Trump supported the latest Israeli strike to send a message to Iran about the Strait of Hormuz, but now opposes further such attacks.
However, according to sources in the newspaper, Trump may be open to further strikes on Iranian energy facilities if Tehran threatens or obstructs traffic through the Strait of Hormuz.
The president previously threatened to increase the force of strikes against Iran by 20 times if Iran continued its naval blockade of the Strait of Hormuz. Tehran said it would not allow “not a single liter of oil” to leave the region.
The US military currently does not allow artificial intelligence (AI) to make decisions on its own to strike people, the commander of US Special Operations Command, Gen. Frank Bradley, said on Wednesday.
“There is always a human in the decision-making chain regarding the attack on a target“, he assured a hearing before the House Armed Services Committee, responding to a lawmaker's question whether the US military uses systems that attack human targets entirely without human intervention, relying solely on decisions based on artificial intelligence.
When asked whether the US is seriously considering the possibility of using such systems, Bradley replied: “I don't think so.“ He stressed that according to the norms of military conflict “the decision on where and how to use deadly force must be made by a human“. "Regardless of the means by which lethal force is used, the decision must be made by a human," he reiterated.
In addition, Bradley noted: "We use lethal weapons every day that have some degree of autonomy. We have some degree of that in our infrared-guided missiles," he gave as an example.
At the same time, Bradley's opening remarks, published on the committee's website, noted that US special operations forces are striving to develop "autonomous systems" and their widespread application, as well as to achieve superiority in the use of technologies based on artificial intelligence.