The Israeli military said Sunday it had intercepted a missile launched from Yemen, the latest in a series of recent attacks.
“Following the sirens that sounded a short while ago in Talmei Elazar, a missile launched from Yemen was intercepted prior to crossing into Israeli territory,” the military said in a statement posted to Telegram.
Yemen’s Houthi rebels, who control much of northern Yemen including the capital Sanaa, said in a statement Sunday they had launched “a hypersonic ballistic missile” targeting a power station south of the Israeli city of Haifa.
The Houthi rebels have also been firing at ships in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden – destabilising a vital shipping lane and prompting reprisal strikes by the United States and sometimes Britain.
The group’s Saba news agency and Al-Masirah TV reported three raids on Sunday east of the city of Saada, in northern Yemen, attributing the operations to the United States and Britain.
Washington and London did not immediately comment on that report.
Iranian foreign ministry spokesman Esmail Baghaei on Sunday said Tehran “strongly condemned the American and British air strikes against infrastructure in Saada province”.
