DUBAI, November 15. /TASS/. Yemen’s Ansar Allah (Houthi) movement delivered missile strikes on several targets in Israel, including the city of Eilat, Ansar Allah movement spokesman Yahya Saria has said.
"We have fired a salvo of ballistic missiles towards various targets of the Israeli adversary in the occupied Palestinian territories, including sensitive targets in the district of Umm al-Rashrash [Eilat]," Saria said in a video address, aired by the Al Masirah television.
He also said that Houthis "began taking all practical measures" to fulfill the task of striking "any Israeli ship in the Red Sea or any other location" within the range of Houthi missiles and drones.
Saria added that the movement will continue its attacks on Israel until the Jewish state stops its operation in the Gaza Strip.
The press service of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said on Tuesday that civil defense sirens were wailing in Eilat to warn the population about the possibility of a missile attack.
The Houthi staged its first attack on Israel on October 31, when according to Saria, "a large batch of ballistic and cruise missiles, as well as a lot of drones" were launched "at various enemy targets on Israel-occupied territories."
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said on the same day that sirens warning about an enemy aircraft had sounded near Eilat in southern Israel. Later, Israel’s Kan radio station said that a drone had been launched from Yemen and shot down over the Red Sea.
On October 27, Egyptian air defense systems intercepted two drones over the northeastern part of the Sinai Peninsula, which were flying northward from the southern part of the Red Sea. Shortly before this, the Israeli foreign ministry said that the Houthi had struck Egypt with missiles and drones.
The situation in the Middle East sharply escalated following an incursion of Hamas militants from the Gaza Strip into Israel on October 7, accompanied by killings of residents of Israeli settlements near the border and taking more than 200 hostages, including children, women and elderly people. Hamas regards the attack as a response to Israeli actions against the Al-Aqsa Mosque on Jerusalem's Temple Mount. Israel has declared a complete siege of the Gaza Strip and has started delivering strikes on that area and parts of Lebanon and Syria. Clashes are also taking place in the West Bank.