(Reuters) -The Israeli army stated on Wednesday it intercepted a missile launched from Yemen, as sirens had been activated in Tel Aviv and a number of other different areas throughout the nation.
Yemen’s Houthis later claimed accountability, saying they fired two ballistic missiles at Tel Aviv in what they stated was an preliminary response to Israeli assaults on Yemen.
“This morning … a subject examination concluded that the Houthi terrorist regime used a cluster surface-to-surface missile”, the army stated in an announcement late on Wednesday.
The Houthis later claimed accountability for one more missile launch which was additionally intercepted by the Israeli army.
The Iran-backed Houthis have been launching missiles and drones hundreds of kilometres north in the direction of Israel, in what the group says are acts of solidarity with the Palestinians.
Israel has retaliated by bombing Houthi-controlled areas of Yemen, together with the important Hodeidah port. Its newest blow killed senior Houthi officers, together with the top of the federal government.
The Houthis, who management essentially the most populous elements of Yemen, have additionally been attacking vessels within the Purple Sea because the begin of the warfare in Gaza in October 2023.
(Reporting by Nayera Abdallah, Tala Ramadan, Jana Choukeir and Yomna Ehab; Modifying by Andrew Heavens Bernadette Baum, Ros Russell and Alistair Bell)