Jerusalem : Houthi forces launched a drone at Israel’s Red Sea resort city of Eilat late on Sunday, marking the second attack in a day, the Israeli military said, adding that the Israel Air Force likely intercepted the unmanned aircraft.
“Following the sirens that sounded due to a hostile aircraft infiltration near Eilat, the IAF likely intercepted a UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) launched from Yemen,” the military said in a statement.
The military added that the sirens sounded because of the risk of falling shrapnel from the interception. Police said officers searched the area, but they reported no casualties.
The Houthis did not immediately comment, Xinhua news agency reported.
Earlier in the day, Houthi forces fired a missile toward central Israel before dawn, claiming it targeted “sensitive sites.” The Israeli military intercepted the missile using its air defenses.
On September 26, 2025, Yemen’s Houthi group launched another missile at Israel.
In a televised statement aired by Houthi-run al-Masirah TV, Yahya Sarea, the Houthi military spokesman, said the group fired a “hypersonic ballistic missile” toward a “sensitive target” in the Jaffa area of southern Tel Aviv on Thursday night.
He added that the missile forced air traffic at Ben Gurion Airport to halt temporarily and caused thousands of Israeli residents to take shelter.
Sarea said the Houthi missile attack responded to what he called “Israeli aggression” on the Palestinian territory of the Gaza Strip, as well as to Israeli airstrikes that targeted Yemen’s capital, Sanaa, hours earlier.
–IANS
