Israel prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu said the Houthis in Yemen should expect a “heavy price” for the missile attack on Israel.
A missile fired at central Israel from Yemen hit an unpopulated area, causing no injuries, according to Israel’s military on Sunday.
Moments earlier, air raid sirens had sounded in Tel Aviv and across central Israel, sending residents running for shelter.
“Following the sirens that sounded a short while ago in central Israel, a surface-to-surface missile was identified crossing into central Israel from the east and fell in an open area. No injuries were reported,” the military said.
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Loud booms were also heard in the region that the military said came from missile interceptors that had been launched.
“Whoever needs a reminder of that is invited to visit the Hodeida port,” Mr Netanyahu said, referring to an Israeli retaliatory air strike against Yemen in July for a Houthi drone that hit Tel Aviv.
The drone that hit Tel Aviv for the first time in July killed a man and wounded four people. Israeli air strikes in response on Houthi military targets near the port of Hodeidah killed six and wounded 80.
Previously, Houthi missiles have not penetrated deep into Israeli airspace, with the only one reported to have hit Israeli territory falling in an open area near the Red Sea port of Eilat in March.
The Houthis have fired missiles and drones at Israel repeatedly in what they say is solidarity with the Palestinians, since the Gaza war began with a Hamas attack on Israel in October.
The Houthis, an armed movement that has taken control of most of Yemen over the past decade, have also been attacking shipping lanes at the mouth of the Red Sea, where 15 per cent of the world’s seaborne trade passes on routes between Europe and Asia.
Elsewhere, the UN said a sniper killed one of its employees on the roof of his home in the northern West Bank.
Sufyan Jaber Abed Jawwad, a sanitation worker with the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, was the first Unrwa employee killed in the West Bank in more than a decade.
News of the latest killing comes as friends and family gathered in Turkey to bury a US-Turkish activist who had been killed by the Israeli military at a protest six days earlier and around 30km away.
The war in Gaza has overshadowed spiralling conflict in the West Bank, which has seen weeks of Israeli military operations and violence has reached “unprecedented levels, placing communities at risk,” Unrwa said.
At least 41,206 Palestinians have been killed and 95,337 others injured in Israel’s military offensive on Gaza since October 7th, the health ministry in Gaza said on Sunday. – Guardian