{"id":482134,"date":"2026-06-08T10:45:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T10:45:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/482134\/"},"modified":"2026-06-08T10:45:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T10:45:13","slug":"as-yemens-houthis-enter-war-israel-is-again-in-active-conflict-on-four-fronts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/482134\/","title":{"rendered":"As Yemen&#8217;s Houthis enter war, Israel is again in active conflict on four fronts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A launch of a missile by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/defense-news\/article-898669\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Yemen\u2019s Houthis<\/a> at Israeli territory early on Monday has brought the Jewish state back to conflict on four fronts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">Shortly after the IDF&#8217;s early-morning detection of the launch, sirens sounded across central Israel and the West Bank, from south of Hebron to Tel Aviv. A large missile fragment crashed down in an empty area in the West Bank.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">The attack from Yemen marks the first such incident in months, and following Sunday evening\u2019s missile barrages from Iran, Israel\u2019s home front now faces attacks from the Islamic Republic, Lebanon\u2019s Hezbollah, and the Houthis.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the IDF has been continuing to strike at terrorist activity <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/tags\/gaza\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">in Gaza<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">The last incident in which a missile was fired from Yemen took place in early April amid Israel\u2019s strikes against the Iranian regime during the height of Operation Roaring Lion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">Hours after the Houthis\u2019 Monday attack, the group\u2019s military spokesperson, Yahya Saree, claimed that it had targeted the Tel Aviv area.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">The reason for the attack, he asserted, was Israel\u2019s alleged \u201cGreater Israel\u201d project.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/middle-east\/iran-news\/article-898364\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Greater Israel<\/a>&#8221; is an antisemitic allegation that Israel, or mainstream movements within Israel, are attempting to forcefully and surreptitiously expand Israel&#8217;s state borders to those mentioned in prophetic Bible verses.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">Saree added that the missile launch was also an \u201cendeavor to break the unjust and oppressive siege imposed by the American enemy on our people and the free and dear peoples of the axis in Lebanon, Gaza, and Iran.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">He also cited Israeli attacks on Lebanon, Gaza, and Iran.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">The spokesperson added that the Houthis would escalate their attacks in accordance with the escalation in the conflict between Israel and Iran and its proxy groups.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A launch of a missile by Yemen\u2019s Houthis at Israeli territory early on Monday has brought the Jewish&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":482135,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[50,69,86,2895,8954,1031,85,87,46,88,47,43,157283,2893],"class_list":["post-482134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-gaza","tag-gaza-strip","tag-hezbollah","tag-houthi","tag-houthis","tag-idf","tag-il","tag-iran","tag-israel","tag-lebanon","tag-middle-east","tag-news","tag-operation-roaring-lion","tag-yemen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=482134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482134\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/482135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=482134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=482134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=482134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}