JERUSALEM/CAIRO (Reuters) – Israel stated its air defences intercepted a surface-to-surface missile launched from Yemen on Sunday and Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthi motion stated it had fired a number of missiles on the Israeli Crimson Sea metropolis of Eilat.
The assault extended an escalation of violence between Israel and the Houthis that started on Friday when the Yemeni group launched a drone that hit the centre of Tel Aviv, killing one man and wounding 4 others.
Israeli warplanes carried out an air raid close to Yemen’s Hodeidah port in response on Saturday, hitting what Israel stated had been Houthi navy targets. Six individuals had been killed and 80 others injured within the assault, medical sources in Yemen instructed Reuters on Sunday, saying that they had been all civilians.
Photos from the scene confirmed a fiery blaze and dense smoke rising from the location of the strike.
The Israeli navy stated its Arrow 3 missile defence system had shot down the projectile launched from Yemen on Sunday earlier than it crossed into Israeli territory.
Earlier than the interception, air raid sirens had sounded in Eilat, sending residents operating for shelter.
The exchanges are a part of a spillover from the greater than nine-month-old Gaza warfare that has drawn in regional and world powers.
Iran-aligned teams together with the Houthis have fired rockets and missiles at Israel saying they’re doing so in help of Palestinians and the Islamist militant group Hamas that controls Gaza. The US and its allies again Israel and supply weapons to it.
The warfare started on Oct. 7 after a Hamas-led assault on southern Israel by which about 1,200 individuals had been killed, in accordance with Israeli authorities. Israel has since bombed and invaded Gaza killing almost 39,000 individuals, in accordance with well being officers within the enclave.
The Houthis, who management a lot of the north of Yemen and different massive inhabitants centres, have beforehand claimed focusing on Eilat and different assaults directed at Israel, saying they’re performing in retaliation for Israel’s warfare on Gaza.
The group has additionally attacked Crimson Sea delivery routes for months.
Hamas’ allies embrace Iran-backed teams such because the Houthis, Lebanese Hezbollah and Iraqi paramilitaries.
