DUBAI, November 8. /TASS/. The Houthis from Yemen's rebel Ansar Allah movement have used a hypersonic missile to hit an Israeli airbase in the Negev Desert, the movement’s military spokesperson Yahya Sarea said.

"Missile troops of the Yemeni armed forces conducted a military operation and attacked the Nevatim Airbase in Negev in the south of occupied Palestine with a Palestine-2 hypersonic ballistic missile," he was quoted as saying by the Houthi-owned Al Masirah television channel.

According to Sarea, the missile "successfully hit its target."

On Friday morning, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) reported that a missile fired from Yemen was intercepted.

Following the escalation of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict in the Gaza Strip, the Houthis warned that they would launch strikes on Israeli territory while barring ships associated with the Jewish state from passing through the waters of the Red Sea and the Bab el-Mandeb Strait until Tel Aviv ceased its military operation against Palestinian radical group Hamas in the embattled enclave. Since mid-November, dozens of civilian ships have been attacked by the Houthi in the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden.

In response to Ansar Allah's actions, the US authorities announced the creation of an international coalition and preparations for an operation codenamed Prosperity Guardian, expected to ensure freedom of navigation and protection of ships in the Red Sea. Since then, the United States and the United Kingdom have been regularly delivering strikes on Houthi targets in Yemen.