{"id":55491,"date":"2025-09-04T16:44:02","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T16:44:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/yemen-s-houthis-claim-missile-drone-attack-on-israel\/"},"modified":"2025-09-04T16:45:14","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T16:45:14","slug":"yemen-s-houthis-claim-missile-drone-attack-on-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/yemen-s-houthis-claim-missile-drone-attack-on-israel\/","title":{"rendered":"Yemen&#8217;s Houthis claim missile, drone attack on Israel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Houthi military spokesman Yahya Sarea said in a statement on Thursday that the missile &#8220;hit its target and was not intercepted,&#8221; forcing Israelis into shelters and disrupting flights.<\/p>\n<p>He said the attack was in support of Palestinians and in response to Israel&#8217;s offensive in Gaza.<\/p>\n<p>There has been no immediate comment from the Israeli side so far.<\/p>\n<p>It was the group&#8217;s third claimed attack against Israel in two days.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, the group claimed responsibility for launching two missile and drone attacks on &#8220;sensitive targets&#8221; in Jerusalem, Haifa and Tel Aviv.<\/p>\n<p>The escalation came after an Israeli airstrike last Thursday in the Houthi-held capital Sanaa killed 12 senior Houthi figures, as the Houthi forces have no air defense systems.<\/p>\n<p>The Houthis, which control much of northern Yemen, have been frequently launching missile and drone attacks on Israel since November 2023, citing solidarity with Palestinians amid the ongoing Israel-Hamas conflict in Gaza. Nearly all Houthi attacks were reportedly intercepted.<\/p>\n<p>In response, Israel has retaliated, striking Houthi targets in northern Yemen.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-93842\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/going.jpg\" alt=\"Yemen&#039;s Houthi group said it fired a ballistic missile at Ben Gurion Airport in central Israel on Thursday morning.\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yemen&#8217;s Houthi group said it fired a ballistic missile at Ben Gurion Airport in central Israel on Thursday morning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":2000093841,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[235],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-55491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-xinhua"],"bylines":[{"id":235,"name":"Xinhua","slug":"xinhua","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":80}],"contributors":[{"id":235,"name":"Xinhua","slug":"xinhua","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":80}],"featured_image":{"id":2000093841,"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/going.jpg","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","width":0,"height":0,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/going.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/going.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/going.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/going.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/going.jpg","width":0,"height":0}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55491\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000093841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55491"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=55491"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=55491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}