A drone launched in Israel “since the east” was intercepted by the Israeli Air Force on Monday evening, the army said.
According to the IDF, the drone was shot before crossing Israel, and therefore no mermaids sounded, “according to the protocol”.
The Houthis supported by Iran in Yemen quickly took responsibility for the attack, saying that they had launched a drone to Israel, claiming to have been the subject of a “military target” in the Tel Aviv region
The Houthis also claimed to have targeted two American destroyers in the Red Sea with several missiles and drones.
At the meeting of the Oval Office of US President Donald Trump with Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday, Trump said that the United States military campaign against the Houthis in Yemen had been “very successful”.
“We really damaged them,” he said, adding that “it’s every night, night after night, and we had a lot of their leaders and their experts.”
“It was a bad week for the Houthis,” added the defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, “and it’s about to get worse.”
He said the United States had destroyed underground installations, weapons manufacturing sites, bunkers, troops and air defense assets.
“We are not going to give in,” said HegSeth, “and it will only be relentless until the Houthis declare that they will stop shooting our ships.”
He added that the United States was “very clear” to the Iranians that it should stop providing support for the Houthis.
Since March 18, when the FDI have resumed its offensive against Hamas in the Gaza Strip, the Houthis in Yemen launched at least 10 ballistic missiles in Israel, taking over a bombing campaign that they started to support Gaza.
The missiles were all intercepted by the air defenses, but they sparked sirens which send millions of Israelis rushing to shelters at all hours of the day and night. Friday evening, the FDI intercepted a drone which, according to the Houthis, was addressed to the Tel Aviv region.
The supporters of Houthi sing slogans during a weekly anti-American and anti-Israeli rally in Sanaa, Yemen, March 28, 2025.
The war in Gaza began on October 7, 2023, when the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas led some 5,000 attackers to invade southern Israel, killing 1,200 people and removing 251 as the enclave offices.
The Houthis supported by Iran have targeted more than 100 merchant ships with missiles and drones, flowing two of them and killing four sailors from November 2023 to January this year.
They also launched attacks targeting American warships without success. In addition, they targeted Israel with missiles and drones, killing a person in Tel Aviv and causing significant damage several times. Most projectiles have been intercepted.
The attacks considerably enhanced the profile of the Houthis, which faced economic problems and launched a repression targeting dissent and the workers of Le Havre in Yemen in the midst of a falsified war of a decade which tore the poorest nation of the Arab world.
A screenshot of the video published by American President Donald Trump on April 4, 2025, claiming to show an American strike on the Houthi rebels supported by Iran in Yemen. (X screenshot)
An intense campaign of air strikes in Yemen under Trump targeting the rebels killed at least 69 people, according to figures from injured published by the Houthis.
The campaign shows no signs of stopping, because the Trump administration has repeatedly linked its air strikes to the Houthis to an effort to put pressure on Iran on its nuclear program quickly.
