The Israeli army said Wednesday it intercepted two missiles launched from Yemen, where Houthis have vowed to avenge their prime minister, killed last week in an Israeli strike on Sanaa.
"Following sirens that sounded earlier in several areas of the country, a missile launched from Yemen was intercepted," the army said in a statement.
According to the army, it was the first missile strike to trigger sirens in Israel since the assassination of Ghaleb al-Rahwi and nine of his ministers in an Israeli raid last Thursday on the Houthi-held capital Sanaa.
The army later announced it had intercepted another missile from Yemen after more sirens went off in central Israel.
Houthi military spokesman Yahya Saree said Wednesday that the Yemeni militants had fired two missiles at targets in the Tel Aviv area, calling it a "response to Israeli aggression against our country."
"Our operations will continue and intensify in the coming period," he added.
In a televised speech on Sunday, the group’s leader Abdelmalek al-Houthi vowed that "targeting Israel with drones and missiles" would continue and escalate.
Ahmad Ghaleb al-Rahwi is the highest-ranking political figure among the insurgents to be killed in Israeli strikes since the war in Gaza began, triggered by Hamas’s unprecedented October 7, 2023 attack on Israel.
Since the start of that war, the Houthis, claiming solidarity with the Palestinians, have launched drones and missiles at Israeli territory—mostly intercepted—and attacked ships they said were linked to Israel off Yemen’s coast.
In response, the Israeli military has carried out strikes against Houthi targets. The Houthis are allied with Iran, Israel’s sworn enemy.
AFP
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