Dubai, United Arab Emirates (AP) – Yemen’s rebels launched a missile on Wednesday northern Israel, this being the first attack of the group to reach the area while an intense campaign of air attacks in the United States continues. The hutis, separately, claimed to have demolished another American drone MQ-New Reaper on Yemen.
The sirens sounded in Haifa, Krayot and other areas west of the Sea of Galilee, the Israeli army reported.
“An interceptor was launched towards the missile, and most likely the missile has been successfully intercepted,” said the Israeli army.
Those in the area were able to hear explosions in the dark prior to dawn.
Hutí military spokesman, Brigadier General Yahya Saree, later claimed the attack in a pre -recorded message, stating that they had pointed to Haifa with a hypersonic missile. But although Saree has affirmed attacks in Haifa in the past, Wednesday’s attack was the first to reach the area, the Israeli army recognized.
Meanwhile, US air attacks continued to point to the Hutis on Wednesday morning, as part of a campaign that began on March 15. The Hutis reported attacks in the governorates of Hodeida, Marib and Saada. In Marib, the Hutis described an attack that impacted telecommunications teams, which have previously been an objective of Americans.
In response, the hutis have intensified their focus on American drones that fly over the country. Late Tuesday, Saree declared that the rebels knocked down a MQ-Nueve Reaper drone about the Hajjah governorate in Yemen.
The United States Army recognized the demolished drone’s report, but said he could not comment more about it.
Saree said the rebels pointed to the drone with “a local manufacturing missile.” The hutis have Earth-Aire missiles, as the Iranian missile known as 358, capable of demolishing aircraft. The hutis claim to have demolished 26 mq-9s during the last decade of the war in Yemen.
Iran denies putting together the rebels, although Iranian manufacturing armament has been found on the battlefield and maritime shipments aimed at Yemen for the Chiitas Hutíes rebels despite an embargo of United Nations weapons.
The Reapers of General Atomics, which cost around 30 million dollars each, can fly to altitudes greater than 12,100 meters (40,000 feet) and remain in the air for more than 30 hours. They have been flown by the United States Army and the CIA for years about Afghanistan, Iraq and now Yemen.
The United States is pointing to the hutis due to the attacks of the group to navigation in the Red Sea, a crucial global commercial route, already Israel. The hutíes are the last militant group in the “resistance axis” self -denominated by Iran who is able to regularly attack Israel.
The new United States operation against the Hutis under President Donald Trump is more extensive than attacks on the group under President Joe Biden, he found an AP review. The new campaign began after the rebels threatened to start attacking “Israeli” ships again because Israel blocked the entry of help to the Gaza Strip.
From November 2023 to this January, the Hutis have pointed to more than 100 merchant ships with missiles and drones, sinking two of them and killing four sailors. That has significantly reduced trade flow through the Red Sea corridor, which typically sees 1 billion dollars in goods annually. The hutis also launched attacks aimed at American warships without success.
Evaluating the impact of the United States air attack campaign, which has been difficult because the army has not published information about the attacks, including what was attacked and how many people died. Meanwhile, hutis strictly control access to attacked areas and do not publish complete information about attacks, many of which probably reached military and security sites.
Last week, an attack in the Ras Isa fuel port killed at least 74 people and wounded another 171 in the most known deadly attack of the US campaign.
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Natalie Melzer correspondent in Nahariya, Israel, contributed this note
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This story was translated from English by an AP editor with the help of a generative artificial intelligence tool.
