Yemen’s Houthi rebels appear to threaten Israel, after the Israel Defense Forces announced it was ramping up operations against Hamas in Gaza.
“Eilat,” Hezam al-Asad, a member of the Iran-backed group’s political bureau, writes on the social media platform X.
Earlier Friday, the IDF said a fighter jet intercepted a target over the Red Sea — apparently a drone heading for Israel — hours after an unmanned aerial vehicle slammed into the Egyptian town of Taba, wounding six people. Taba is located some 10 kilometers (six miles) from Eilat.
According to the military, the strike in Taba originated from “the Red Sea area,” an apparent reference to the Houthis in Yemen.
The blast in Egypt came days after the Houthis tried to fire missiles at Israel via the Red Sea.
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