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Yemen’s Houthi rebels have fired a missile at Israel, in the first such incident since the beginning of Operation Epic Fury against Iran.
Israel’s military said they intercepted the missile early on Saturday morning.
The strike, which the Houthi rebels claimed responsibility for, raises the possibility that the Iranian-backed rebel group will target commercial shipping in the Red Sea.
Thus far, the Houthis, who have held Yemen’s capital Sanaa for more than a decade, have stayed out of the war with Iran, mainly to preserve their truce with Saudi Arabia, which launched a war against them on behalf of Yemen’s government-in-exile, in 2015.
The Houthis attacked shipping in the Red Sea during the recent Israel-Hamas war, and also fired drones at Israel.
They attacked around 100 merchant vessels with missiles and drones, sinking two and killing four sailors, between November 2023 and January 2025.
The US launched strikes against the Houthis in 2025.
Yahya Saree, a senior military spokesman for the Houthis, issued a statement on Saturday in which he said they had fired missiles at “sensitive military sites” in Israel.
Hours earlier, Saree issued a vaguely worded statement that suggested the Houthis were prepared to join the Iran war.
Iran and Hezbollah continued to attack targets in Israel through Friday and into Saturday.
Sirens went off around Beer Sheba and the area near Israel’s main nuclear research center, at Dimona.
Around a dozen US servicemembers were injured in a missile attack on a Saudi airbase.
The strike took place on Friday, against Prince Sultan Air Base in Saudi Arabia.
Two of the servicemembers were seriously injured.
On Friday, US Central Command (CENTCOM) said that 303 US servicemembers have been injured during Operation Epic Fury, the joint US-Israeli military campaign against Iran, which began on 28 February.
According to CENTCOM, 273 of those servicemembers have now returned to duty.
At the G7 meeting in France on Friday, Secretary of State Marco Rubio told European leaders the war with Iran will last a further two-to-four weeks.
According to Axios and unnamed sources, “This is the first time a senior U.S. official suggested the war would continue beyond the four to six-week timeframe President Trump has discussed since the war started.”
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