Yemen's Houthi rebels fire a missile targeting northern Israel, a rare target for the group

DUBAI – Yemen's Houthi rebels launched a rocket aboriginal Wednesday toward bluish Israel, a uncommon people for the radical arsenic a monthlong aggravated U.S. airstrike run continues to people them.

Sirens sounded successful Haifa, Krayot and different areas westbound of the Sea of Galilee, the Israeli subject said.

“An interceptor was launched toward the missile, and the rocket was astir apt successfully intercepted,” the Israeli subject said.

Those successful the country could present booms successful the predawn darkness.

The Houthis did not instantly assertion the attack, though it tin instrumentality them hours oregon adjacent days to admit their assaults.

American airstrikes, meanwhile, continued targeting the Houthis connected Wednesday morning, portion of a run that began connected March 15. The Houthis reported strikes connected Hodeida, Marib and Saada governorates. In Marib, the Houthis described a onslaught hitting telecommunication equipment, which has antecedently been a people of the Americans.

The U.S. military's Central Command did not instantly respond to a petition for comment.

The U.S. is targeting the Houthis due to the fact that of the group’s attacks connected shipping successful the Red Sea, a important planetary commercialized route, and connected Israel. The Houthis are the past militant radical successful Iran’s self-described “Axis of Resistance” that is susceptible of regularly attacking Israel.

The caller U.S. cognition against the Houthis nether President Donald Trump is more extensive than attacks connected the radical were nether President Joe Biden, an AP review found. The caller run started aft the rebels threatened to statesman targeting “Israeli” ships again implicit Israel blocking assistance from entering the Gaza Strip.

From November 2023 until this January, the Houthis targeted much than 100 merchant vessels with missiles and drones, sinking 2 of them and killing 4 sailors. That has greatly reduced the travel of commercialized done the Red Sea corridor, which typically sees $1 trillion of goods determination done it annually. The Houthis besides launched attacks targeting American warships without success.

Assessing the toll of the month-old U.S. airstrike run has been hard due to the fact that the subject hasn’t released accusation astir the attacks, including what was targeted and however galore radical were killed. The Houthis, meanwhile, strictly power entree to attacked areas and don’t people implicit accusation connected the strikes, galore of which apt person targeted subject and information sites.

Last week, a onslaught connected the Ras Isa substance port killed astatine slightest 74 radical and wounded 171 others successful the deadliest-known onslaught of the American campaign.

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Associated Press writer Natalie Melzer successful Nahariya, Israel, contributed to this report.

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