The Israeli army announced, on Saturday, that a missile launched from Yemen hit an area near Tel Aviv, after attempts to intercept it failed, resulting in the injury of 14 people.

Army spokesman, Avichay Adraee, said on the

The Israeli ambulance service, Magen David Adom, said that 14 people were injured.

It was reported that the Magen David Adom ambulance and emergency crew was providing medical treatment to 14 people in a minor condition, who were injured by glass fragments, and some of them were taken to the hospital.

A statement from the ambulance services quoted the paramedic, Yousef Kurdi, as saying, “I was at home and heard a loud explosion. I immediately went to the place and saw severe damage... in the neighboring buildings.”

The police reported “damage” to a number of homes.

Israeli media reported that the missile landed in Bnei Brak, east of Tel Aviv.

A spokesman for the Yemeni Houthi group, allied with Iran, said that it hit a “military target” in the Jaffa region with a “hypersonic ballistic missile.”

On Thursday, the Houthis in Yemen claimed responsibility for launching two hypersonic ballistic missiles at Israel, after Israel announced an interception operation and launched air strikes on their “military targets,” which resulted in 9 civilian deaths, according to what the leader of the rebel group announced.

The Israeli army announced, on Thursday morning, that it had launched air strikes on “military targets” belonging to the Houthis in Yemen in an attack that followed its interception of a missile launched towards the Hebrew state by the Iran-backed group.

Since November 2023, the Houthis have been launching attacks on commercial ships in the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden from the areas under their control in Yemen, in what they consider “support” for the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, where a devastating war has been raging between Israel and Hamas since the movement launched an unprecedented attack. On Israel on October 7, 2023.

In July 2024, an explosive drone exploded in Tel Aviv in an attack carried out by the Houthis, killing an Israeli civilian.

In response to that attack, Israel launched retaliatory strikes on the Yemeni coastal governorate of Hodeidah.

Also, the Houthis, who control large parts of Yemen, regularly attack ships in the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden, which they say are linked to Israel, the United States, or the United Kingdom.

The Houthi attacks on these maritime shipping lines led to many disruptions in maritime traffic in this essential region for global trade.

In response to these attacks, the United States, sometimes in conjunction with Britain, launches raids against Houthi military sites in Yemen