The Israeli military said it shot down a surface-to-surface missile from Yemen on Sunday, shortly after Israeli warplanes struck several Houthi positions in western Yemen.
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said a “rocket and missile warning” had been issued in case of falling debris, but that the Yemeni missiles did not enter Israeli territory. In a statement about X.
This came hours after Israel Defense Forces air force planes struck Houthi positions in Yemen’s western port of Hodeidah, which is used as a supply route for Iranian arms shipments to Houthi rebels. The Israeli military he said late Saturday.
It was not immediately confirmed whether the Houthis were behind Sunday’s missile launch, but a Houthi military spokesman said Pledged the “massive and fantastic” response to Saturday’s “Israeli aggression.”
of Israeli airstrikes The IDF said the move was in retaliation for hundreds of Houthi attacks in recent months, including a drone strike in Tel Aviv last week that killed an Israeli national.
The Israeli attack in Hodeidah left around 80 people injured, most of them with severe burns caused by a massive fire that erupted from the attack. The Associated Press reported: Citing the Ministry of Health in Sanaa.
“The fires that are burning in Yemen right now are being felt across the Middle East. There is a price to be paid in the blood of the Israeli people,” Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant said. I said on Monday X.
The Iran-backed Houthi militants have launched a series of missile and drone attacks since last year in protest at Israel’s war with Hamas, a U.S.-designated Iran-backed terrorist group.
The group initially targeted merchant and warships in the Red Sea in an attempt to disrupt trade routes between Israel, the United States and other Western countries.
The Houthi attacks, carried out in solidarity with Hamas, came shortly after the terrorist group’s October 7 attack on southern Israel left 1,200 people dead and around 250 kidnapped.
The Oct. 7 attack triggered more than nine months of war between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip, which has killed more than 38,000 people, according to the Gaza Strip Health Ministry.
The United States formed a maritime task force late last year to counter the Houthi threat in the Red Sea.
