Houthis from Yemen’s rebel movement Ansar Allah have launched a missile attack on the southern Israeli city of Eilat, Yahya Saree, the movement’s spokesman, said, APA reports citing TASS.
"The Yemeni armed forces carried out a military operation, hitting with several ballistic missiles certain facilities belonging to the Israeli enemy in the area of Umm al-Rashrash (Arabic name of Eilat - TASS) in the south of occupied Palestine," he said on the Houthi-owned Al Masirah television channel.
Earlier, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) reported that its air defenses had intercepted a surface-to-surface missile over the Red Sea. The IDF press service said that the Israeli military used the Arrow air defense system to intercept the missile.