Two Navy Seals missing  after harsh waves knock them overboard off the coast of Somalia

Two Navy Seals are missing while trying toও board a v🎶essel in the nighttime, officials said.

The two Seals, whose names were not publicly released, 🍸were climbing up a vessel in✃ the Gulf of Aden when they got knocked off by waves.

Under t𓆉heir protocol, when o🍸ne SEAL is overtaken, the next jumps in after them.

The men were on an interdiction mission — where members intercept weapons on ships that are bound for Houthi-controlled Yemen — when the waves overtook them, the officials said,

The officials, who would only speak anonymously, would not detail the mission the missing Seals were on, but said it was not a part of Operation Prosperity Guardian, where the US and it🍸s allies are working to provide protection to commercial ves🌌sels in the Red Sea.

They also said the Seals’ work was not in relation to the Thursdaystrike against the Houthis by the United States and the United Kingdom.

Search and rescue🍌 teams are looking for the two soldiers. US Central Command declined to release more information until the effort is complete.

The Gulf o𝓰f Aden 🎉is a hotspot for military activity as the Houthis have carried out two dozen attacks against commercial ships in the Gulf and Red Sea since mid-November.

Over the past two days, the US and UK carried out airstrikes on around 30 locations associated with the militant group.

President Joe Biden said Saturday that the US “privately” delivered a message to Iran, which backs Houthi, about backing their ship attacks🎃.

“We delivered it privately and we’re confident we’re well prepa💙red,” the president ꦕanswered as he headed into Camp David.

On Friday, the US Navy destroyer USS Carney fired off a Tomahawk land missile that struck a radar owned by the militant gro⛎up that was being used to target ships.

The attack was described as a “follow-on action…to degrade the Houthis’ ability to attack marꦏitime vessels, including commercial vessels,” Central Command  on X.🌃 

On Thursday, Ameri𒆙can and British forces struck more than two dozen Houthi targets in Yemen.

Houthi has promised a strong and e💜ffective 🐽retaliation to the joint strike.

“This new strike will have a firm, strong, and effective response,” Houthi spokesperson Nasruld𒁏een Amer told Al Jazeera. 

With Post wires.