Yesterday the Emirati container ship GFS Galaxy Global Feeder Shipping, while off the coast of the governorate Omani Musandam, announced that he had suffered an attack that caused damage to the aft part of the ship causing a fire. The Omani Ministry of Defense has announced that the incident is 4.4 nautical miles from the coasts and that its Maritime Security Centre responded to the distress call launched by the ship managing to save 23 crew members of the container carriers, providing them with the necessary medical care, while The teams that intervened continue the search operations for a Crew member still missing.

The United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) specified that it had been informed by the authorities military personnel and the ship's security officer the crew had abandoned ship on board a lifeboat rescue, to then be rescued by the authorities local areas.

The GFS Galaxy, which was built in 2009 and it has a load capacity of 7,070 TEUs, it is used in a scheduled service connecting the Persian Gulf with China and South Korea through the hub port of Port Klang which sees the cooperation of the companies Emirates Shipping Line, Global Feeder Shipping, Hapag-Lloyd, HMM, ONE and Yang Ming.

Following the accident, the Undersecretary for Foreign Affairs Omani Foreign Minister, Khalid Almuslahi, summoned the ambassador of the Islamic Republic of Iran to the Sultanate of Oman to give him a formal note of protest for the attacks carried out with drones against sites in the governorates of Musandam and Al Wusta. During the meeting, the Undersecretary expressed his Oman's deep concern about these acts, which it has defined irresponsible, and expressed the hope that the sovereignty of States, the principles of good neighbourliness and non- interference in internal affairs, as well as adherence to the values and to the ethical norms that unite the two countries and the neighboring peoples.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of India has also condemned the attack on the GFS Galaxy and, while the operations rescue services were still in progress, he had announced that ten Indian seafarers who were on board the container ship were rescued while another Indian seafarer was missing.

Despite the incident, the U.S. Central Command reiterated that The Strait of Hormuz is open to all ships seeking to transit legally through the international waterway. The U.S. Command has highlighted that U.S. forces are positioned and prepared to ensure that the freedom of navigation continues to be ensured despite the aggression, Iran's obstructions, threats, and arbitrary actions.