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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed to retaliate against Yemen’s Houthi rebels after they fired a missile at Tel Aviv, warning that Israel would target what he described as the last remaining arm of “Iran’s axis of evil”.
The Houthis struck Israel’s commercial hub on Saturday with what they claimed was a ballistic missile, injuring 16 people and forcing many to leave their homes following the predawn attack.
“As we acted with force against the terrorist arms of Iran’s axis of evil, so we will act against the Houthis … with force, determination and sophistication,” Netanyahu said in a video statement on Sunday.
Saturday’s strike on Tel Aviv was the second such attack on Israel by the Houthis last week, and one of several since the war in Gaza broke out.

The Iranian-backed Houthis say they are acting in solidarity with Palestinians as the war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza rages on.
The war began on October 7, 2023, following Hamas’ deadly attack on Israel.
Netanyahu’s latest comments came after the United States said it struck targets in Yemen’s rebel-held capital Sanaa on Saturday, hours after the Houthis hit Tel Aviv.
Among the targets was a Houthi missile storage centre and a “command-and-control facility,” the US Central Command (CENTCOM) said in a statement.
US forces also shot down multiple Houthi drones and an anti-ship cruise missile over the Red Sea, it said.
However, two US Navy pilots were shot down over the Red Sea early Sunday in “an apparent case of friendly fire,” the US military said.

The Houthis later claimed they had “targeted” the aircraft carrier USS Harry S Truman a day earlier in an operation that led to “shooting down an F-18 aircraft”.
US and British forces have repeatedly struck rebel targets in Yemen in response to Houthi attacks on shipping in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden, which are vital to global trade.
Israel has also previously struck the Houthis in Yemen, including hitting ports and energy facilities, after rebel attacks against its territory.
The latest Israeli strike against the Houthis was on Thursday, with Israeli warplanes striking Sanaa for the first time.
The Israeli response came soon after the rebels fired a missile that damaged an Israeli school.
On Sunday, Netanyahu acknowledged Washington’s backing, saying that Israel was “not alone” in its fight against the Houthis.

“The US, as well as other countries, see the Houthis as a threat not only to international shipping – but to the international order”, Netanyahu said in his video statement.
In a similar statement issued earlier this week, Netanyahu said the Houthis would “pay a very heavy price” for their attacks on Israel.
“After Hamas, Hezbollah and the Assad regime in Syria, the Houthis are almost the last arm of Iran’s axis of evil,” he said.
“They are finding out, and will find out, the hard way that whoever harms Israel – will pay a very heavy price.”
As well as Hamas, Israel has fought Iran-backed groups across the region since the start of the war in Gaza, including the Houthis in Yemen and a full-blown war against Hezbollah in Lebanon.
Those campaigns have killed several leaders of Hamas and Hezbollah, including the mastermind of the October 7 attack, Hamas chief Yahya Sinwar, as well as Iranian commanders.
Israel also assassinated Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah, while Sinwar’s predecessor Ismail Haniyeh was killed in a brazen attack in Tehran, which Iran and Hamas have blamed on Israel.
Israel further shocked Hezbollah with attacks involving exploding pagers and walkie-talkies that killed dozens of its fighters and wounded thousands, according to Lebanese authorities.
In late November, Israel and Hezbollah agreed to a ceasefire, which has stopped the former’s blistering bombing campaign inside Lebanon but Israeli troops are still operating in southern parts of the neighbouring country.


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The scene of a missile strike that, according to Israel’s military, was launched from Yemen and landed in Jaffa, south of Tel Aviv. Photo: Reuters

Houthis firing two missiles towards Israel, at an undisclosed location in Yemen, on December 19. Photo: EPA-EFE

A fighter jet on the deck of the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower in the Red Sea. File photo: AP

Israeli strikes on Houthi targets in a location given as Yemen. Photo: Israel Defence Forces via Reuters

2 US Navy pilots shot down over Red Sea in apparent ‘friendly fire’ incident

A fighter jet maneuvers on the deck of the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower. The US Navy says an F-18 Super Hornet was shot down in an apparent “friendly fire” incident over the Red Sea. File photo: AP

Officials from the Sanaa-based Houthi-led government and members of a delegation of the UNMHA (UN Mission to support the Hodeida Agreement) inspect a damaged vessel at a site hit by Israeli forces. Photo: AFP

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defence Minister Israel Katz with members of the Israeli army at Mount Hermon in the annexed Golan Heights. Photo: GPG via AFP

Israeli troops on their way out of the Syrian side of the border. Photo: EPA-EFE

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Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad and Russia’s President Vladimir Putin at the Kremlin in Moscow in July. File photo: AFP

The Syrian presidential palace in Damascus after Islamist-led rebels declared that they have taken the Syrian capital in a lightning offensive. Photo: AFP

Israeli strikes hit Yemen’s capital and port city after Houthi missile intercepted

Firefighters extinguish a fire at a power station following Israeli air strikes in Sanaa, Yemen. Photo: Reuters

In Ramat Gan, a suburb of Tel Aviv, Israel, fragments from a Houthi missile collapsed a school there, without causing any injuries. Photo: AFP

A Houthi ‘Palestine 2’ missile being launched from an unknown location on September 15. File photo: Houthi Military Media via Reuters

Residents stand near the scene of a missile attack in Tel Aviv, after a missile fired from Yemen hit a playground in Tel Aviv. Photo: EPA-EFE

Israeli emergency services work at the scene of a missile strike that, according to Israel’s military, was launched from Yemen and landed in Jaffa, south of Tel Aviv. Photo: Reuters

A camp for the internally displaced on the beach near the Nuseirat refugee in the central Gaza Strip. Photo: AFP

A fire seen through a window from Kamal Adwan hospital in the northern Gaza Strip. Photo: Reuters

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Israeli prime minister makes statement a day after a missile fired from Yemen fell in the Tel Aviv area, injuring 16 people


Israeli prime minister makes statement a day after a missile fired from Yemen fell in the Tel Aviv area, injuring 16 people.
