Netanyahu spoke in response to aerial attacks from Yemen and Lebanon.
Houthis
Five people were lightly hurt running to shelters • The missile fragments were apparently intercepted by the Arrow and Iron Dome systems • An interceptor fragment hit a train station in Modi’in.
A Hezbollah spokesman said that the Yemen-based terror group is planning its next phase against the Jewish state.
The nation is on high alert in this dangerous phase.
“We see the cranes,” one of the pilots can be heard saying, before another confirms, “Everything is dismantled.”
The ballistic missile was downed outside of Israeli airspace, according to the IDF.
The strikes “also followed the Houthi’s aggression against the State of Israel since the start of the war,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said.
Footage from the scene appeared to show an armed drone exploding over a residential building close to the U.S. diplomatic mission.
Washington sanctioned two ship owners and two vessels tied to “an Iran-based, Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps-Qods Force-backed Houthi financial facilitator.”
The missile, which triggered air-raid sirens in the southern city, was apparently fired by Iranian-backed Houthi terrorists in Yemen.
