Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi rebels claimed Thursday they had carried out a drone attack on Israel.
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The Houthis carried out “a military operation targeting a major target in the Jaffa region (a district of Tel Aviv, editor’s note) in occupied Palestine with a number of drones,” declared their military spokesperson, Yahya Saree, without specify when the attack took place.
“The drones reached their target without the enemy being able to intercept or shoot them down,” he added.
The Israeli army for its part claimed during the night to have “intercepted a suspicious aerial target off the Dan region, in central Israel”, without giving further details.
On Wednesday, the Houthis had already said they had fired three missiles at Israel, the day after an Iranian missile attack against Israeli territory.
The Houthis, who control large swaths of Yemen, are part of the “axis of resistance” against Israel, a group so called by Tehran which brings together movements supported by Iran in the region, such as the Palestinian Hamas, the Lebanese Hezbollah or even Iraqi groups.
Since the start of the war in the Gaza Strip, triggered on October 7 by an unprecedented attack by Hamas in Israel, Yemeni rebels have carried out several attacks against Israel and ships allegedly linked to this country in the Red Sea and in the Gulf of Aden.
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