{"id":85037,"date":"2026-07-31T07:30:42","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T11:30:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=85037"},"modified":"2026-07-31T07:30:42","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T11:30:42","slug":"tankers-being-hit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/tankers-being-hit\/","title":{"rendered":"Tankers Being Hit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>From AP:<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"e13wjo0r2 e1bc1vag0 css-1uzoyz5-StyledNewsKitParagraph\" data-type=\"paragraph\" data-testid=\"paragraph\">Crew members on the tanker ship heard a loud bang. Dark smoke rose from the front of the vessel, which was loaded with methanol and sailing in the Persian Gulf.<\/p>\n<p class=\"e13wjo0r2 e1bc1vag0 css-1uzoyz5-StyledNewsKitParagraph\" data-type=\"paragraph\" data-testid=\"paragraph\">The JV Innovation, a Marshall Islands-flagged oil tanker hit in May, was one of 67 commercial ships that have been attacked or boarded in the Middle East since the <a class=\"ekxajjj0 css-i0lbhy-OverridedLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/topics\/place\/iran\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-type=\"place\">Iran<\/a>\u00a0war started, according to data from the Washington Institute for Near East Policy think tank. At least\u00a0<a class=\"ekxajjj0 css-i0lbhy-OverridedLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ohchr.org\/en\/press-briefing-notes\/2026\/07\/stranded-hormuz-seafarers-abandoned-months-sea?sub-site=HRC\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-type=\"link\">17 seafarers<\/a> have been killed and dozens more injured in the regional maritime attacks. The attacks on commercial ships have been among the most devastating during wartime in a generation. Most of the attacks have originated from Iran, but the U.S. has launched attacks on and boarded more than a dozen ships that violated the Trump administration\u2019s naval blockade.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From AP: Crew members on the tanker ship heard a loud bang. Dark smoke rose from the front of the.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-85037","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85037"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85037\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85038,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85037\/revisions\/85038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}