Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said he directed a military strike on another vessel ferrying drugs from Venezuela, killing four, as the Trump administration presses ahead with a strategy to target narco-traffickers it calls unlawful combatants at war with the Unites States.

"Our intelligence, without a doubt, confirmed that this vessel was trafficking narcotics, the people onboard were narco-terrorists, and they were operating on a known narco-trafficking transit route,” Hegseth said Friday. "These strikes will continue until the attacks on the American people are over!!!!”

A video of the attack posted to Hegseth’s account on X showed a speed boat racing through unidentified waters before erupting into a massive fireball. It resembled previous videos the Trump administration has posted of other attacks, and it was again impossible to verify the boat’s location, where it was headed, how many people were aboard or what it was carrying.