By Natasha Bertrand
Updated 2小时前
更新于2026年2月17日，美国东部时间下午12:56
发布于2026年2月17日，美国东部时间下午12:23
美国南方司令部在一份声明中表示，2026年2月16日深夜，美军对三艘船只发动了打击，造成11人死亡。
美国南方司令部
美国南方司令部周二表示，美军周一晚间在东太平洋和加勒比海地区对三艘涉嫌贩毒船只发动了打击，船上11人全部死亡。
“情报确认这些船只正沿已知的贩毒路线航行，并正在进行贩毒活动，”南方司令部在声明中称，“在这些行动中，11名贩毒恐怖分子被击毙，其中东太平洋第一艘船上4人，东太平洋第二艘船上4人，加勒比海第三艘船上3人。没有美国军方人员受伤。”
此次打击使美国自去年9月开始的行动造成的死亡人数至少达到135人，另有几名打击幸存者被推定死亡。南方司令部称，美军上一次对涉嫌贩毒船只的打击于周五在加勒比海进行，造成3人死亡。
据美国有线电视新闻网(CNN)报道，去年秋天，特朗普政府出台了一份机密法律意见，为针对至少两打贩毒集团和涉嫌毒贩的致命打击提供了法律依据，将他们归类为敌方战斗人员。
然而，这一系列打击遭到了法律专家和国会民主党成员的强烈质疑，他们表示，由于美国并未与贩毒集团处于正式宣战或国会授权的战争状态，这些行动实际上是在谋杀平民。
去年9月，至少有一次，美军在首次打击一艘涉嫌贩毒船只后，故意杀害了船上未被全部击毙的幸存者，这引发了对美国犯下战争罪的指责，并促使国会展开调查。
这组图片展示了从9月2日至10月29日美军在国际水域针对船只的10起事件。Pete Hegseth/X/Donald Trump/Truth Social
对船只打击造成至少135人死亡的时间线 2分钟阅读
在美军9月开始炸毁船只之前，打击非法毒品走私工作由执法部门和美国海岸警卫队负责，贩毒集团成员和毒品走私者被视为罪犯，享有正当法律程序权利。海岸警卫队在东太平洋继续拦截贩毒船只并查获麻醉品，但未使用致命武力。
US military says it killed 11 people in strikes on three alleged drug boats
By Natasha Bertrand
Updated 2 hr ago
Updated Feb 17, 2026, 12:56 PM ET
PUBLISHED Feb 17, 2026, 12:23 PM ET
Late on February 16, 2026, the US military conducted strikes on three vessels killing 11, US Southern Command said in a statement.
US Southern Command
The US military struck three alleged drug-trafficking vessels in the eastern Pacific and Caribbean on Monday night, killing all 11 people on board, US Southern Command said Tuesday.
“Intelligence confirmed the vessels were transiting along known narco-trafficking routes and were engaged in narco-trafficking operations,” Southern Command said in a statement. “Eleven male narco-terrorists were killed during these actions, 4 on the first vessel in the Eastern Pacific, 4 on the second vessel in the Eastern Pacific, and 3 on the third vessel in the Caribbean. No U.S. military forces were harmed.”
The strikes bring the death toll from the US campaign, which began in September, up to at least 135 people killed, with several more survivors of the strikes presumed dead. The last US strike on a suspected drug-trafficking vessel was carried out Friday in the Caribbean and killed three people, according to Southern Command.
Last fall, the Trump administration produced a classified legal opinion that justified the lethal strikes against a secret list of at least two dozen cartels and suspected drug traffickers classifying them as enemy combatants, CNN has reported.
The strikes have come under intense scrutiny, however, by legal experts and Democratic members of Congress who say they amount to murdering civilians since the US is not in a declared, congressionally authorized war with drug cartels.
In at least one instance last September, the US military deliberately killed survivors after an initial strike on an alleged trafficking vessel did not kill everyone on board, prompting accusations that the US had committed a war crime and sparking congressional investigations.
This grid of images shows 10 of the incidents in which the US military has targeted boats in international waters, from September 2 to October 29. Pete Hegseth/X/Donald Trump/Truth Social A timeline of US strikes on boats that have killed at least 135 2 min read
Before the US military began blowing up boats in September, countering illicit drug trafficking was handled by law enforcement and the US Coast Guard, and cartel members and drug smugglers were treated as criminals with due process rights. The Coast Guard has continued to interdict drug-trafficking vessels and seizing narcotics in the eastern Pacific without the use of lethal force.
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