Suspected Houthi drone attack strikes Israeli city of Eilat

Drone onslaught connected Israeli metropolis of Eilat caused nary casualties, and follows Israeli onslaught connected Yemen’s Hodeidah connected Tuesday.

The Israeli subject says a drone launched “from the east” crashed successful the confederate metropolis of Eilat, causing worldly harm but nary casualties.

The drone reportedly fell successful the city’s edifice zone.

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Thursday’s onslaught appears to beryllium the latest connected Israel from Yemen’s Houthi rebels. Israel has repeatedly conducted its ain attacks connected Yemen.

Following its bombing of Qatar connected September 9, Israel intensified its strikes connected Yemen, sidesplitting dozens.

The drone onslaught successful Eilat follows a bid of 12 strikes carried retired by Israel connected Tuesday against Yemen’s larboard of Hodeidah. An Israeli aerial strike successful precocious August besides killed Ahmed al-Rahawi, the premier curate of the Houthi authorities successful Yemen’s capital, Sanaa.

Thursday’s onslaught comes 4 days aft Israeli strikes connected the Yemeni superior and the bluish state of al-Jawf killed much than 40 people, according to the Houthis.

Since Israel launched its genocidal warfare on Gaza successful October 2023, the Houthis person carried retired drone and rocket attacks against Israel, saying that they person been conducted successful solidarity with Palestinians nether fire. They person besides targeted vessels successful the Red Sea.

That has led to aerial strikes not conscionable from Israel, but besides from the United States and the United Kingdom. The UK and the US person not conducted attacks connected Yemen since May, aft the US agreed to a ceasefire woody with the Houthis.

The Houthis person controlled overmuch of bluish Yemen, including the superior Sanaa, since September 2014. They person fought against the country’s internationally recognised government, arsenic good arsenic a Saudi-led coalition, for years, though the beforehand lines successful that warfare person been mostly frozen since 2022.