The Pentagon carried out its 20th strike on an alleged drug trafficking boat earlier this week, a Defense Department official stated Thursday.
“The strike occurred in the Caribbean and four narco-terrorists were killed, no survivors,” the official confirmed in a press release to NCS. Trump administration officers have acknowledged they don’t essentially know the identities of the people aboard the vessels earlier than they’re focused.
The strike occurred on Monday, the official stated. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth beforehand introduced two Sunday strikes, the 18th and nineteenth carried out by the US military, on two vessels every with three individuals aboard. Hegseth stated in a publish on X the next day that these strikes killed all six. The 20th strike was first reported by CBS News.
The assault brings the entire variety of individuals killed by the US military’s strikes on the alleged drug boats to 80. NCS has reported that the military is utilizing quite a lot of fighter jets, drones, and gunships to hold out the strikes within the marketing campaign officers say is supposed to disrupt the circulation of medication into the US.
The Justice Department has told Congress the administration doesn’t want its approval to hold out the strikes, which some consultants have stated may violate US and worldwide legislation. The ongoing marketing campaign has additionally begun to floor tensions with allies; the United Kingdom has stopped sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels to keep away from being complicit within the strikes, NCS reported this week, which the UK believes are unlawful. The president of Colombia additionally stated this week that he had ordered his nation to droop intelligence sharing with the US till the assaults cease.