Yemen’s Houthi group has claimed to have carried out a new drone attack on Israel’s second largest city, Tel Aviv.
According to media reports, in a statement broadcast on Al-Masirah TV on Friday, Houthi military spokesman Brigadier General Yahya Sari said, “Our air force carried out a qualitative military operation against two Israeli military targets in Tel Aviv, using two drones.”
The spokesman said that the attack was carried out in support of the Palestinian people.
The Houthi military spokesman also said, “We confirm that we will not retreat from fulfilling our duties towards Gaza despite facing the ongoing US aggression against our country.”
Israel’s Channel 12 News reported that a Yemeni drone was shot down over the Dead Sea, within Jordanian airspace, before reaching Israel.
The Jordanian military confirmed on Friday evening that an unidentified drone had entered Jordanian airspace and crashed in the Mina area of the Madaba Governorate near the Dead Sea. No casualties were reported at the time of writing.
Since Israel resumed its offensive in the Gaza Strip last month, the Houthis have been carrying out frequent attacks on Israeli and US targets.
Earlier on Thursday, a Houthi military spokesman claimed new attacks against the US aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman and other US warships in the northern Red Sea.
Meanwhile, the US Central Command said in a post on the social media platform X that it was continuing its daily operations against the Houthis despite the “strange claim of a Houthi attack” on the aircraft carrier.
According to Houthi-run media outlets, the death toll from US airstrikes in northern Yemen since early Friday has risen to 30.
The US airstrikes targeted Houthi positions in several locations east and south of the Yemeni capital Sanaa, the adjacent oil-rich province of Marib, and the western port of Hodeidah.
Residents of Sanaa heard the loud sound of warplanes before and after the strikes in the Mount Nukum and Bani Hashish districts on the eastern outskirts of Sanaa. Airstrikes were also carried out in various locations in the Sanhan district on the southern outskirts of the capital.
There is no warning siren system in Yemen to warn residents of possible airstrikes.
“What we hear is the sound of a high-speed missile hitting and exploding in less than a second, then we hear the sound of warplanes at full speed,” Mohammed, a resident of Sanaa, told China’s Xinhua news agency.