The US military on Wednesday said it destroyed a surface-to-air missile which was threatening its aircraft and was ready to launch from an area in Yemen controlled by Houthi rebels. The US military’s regional command (CENTCOM) said on social media platform X, formerly Twitter, that its forces “struck and destroyed” the missile at about 3:30 pm local time (1230 GMT) after determining “that it presented an imminent threat to U.S. aircraft.” The Islamist Houthi militia have repeatedly targeted ships in the Red Sea since the beginning of the Gaza war between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist org…