{"id":57044,"date":"2025-10-06T03:46:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-06T03:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/57044\/"},"modified":"2025-10-06T03:46:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-06T03:46:10","slug":"yemens-houthis-launch-drone-attack-on-israels-resort-city-eilat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/57044\/","title":{"rendered":"Yemen&#8217;s Houthis launch drone attack on Israel&#8217;s resort city Eilat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/2af5215d64290b6f2e69df6dd548a416.jpg\"\/>A Saar-6 corvette, the latest-generation warship which Israel is using for its naval defense system amid maritime threats from Yemen&#8217;s Houthi rebels, is seen in waters in Eilat, Israel, April 16, 2024. (PHOTO\/AFP)<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">JERUSALEM &#8211; Houthi forces launched a drone at Israel&#8217;s Red Sea resort city of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chinadailyasia.com\/hk\/article\/588616#Israeli-army-intercepts-Houthi-missile-targeting-resort-city-Eilat-2024-07-21\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Eilat<\/a> late on Sunday, the second attack in a day, the Israeli military said, adding that the unmanned aircraft was likely intercepted.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">&#8220;Following the sirens that sounded regarding a hostile aircraft infiltration in the area of Eilat, a UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) that was launched from Yemen was likely intercepted by the IAF (Israel Air Force),&#8221; the military said in a statement. It added that the sirens were triggered due to the risk of falling shrapnel from the interception.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Police said in a statement that officers were searching the area, but no casualties were reported.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">ALSO READ: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chinadailyasia.com\/hk\/article\/620563#Houthis-take-responsibility-for-drone-strike-that-injured-20-in-Israeli-resort-city-2025-09-25\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Houthis take responsibility for drone strike that injured 20 in Israeli resort city<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">There was no immediate comment from the Houthis.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Earlier in the day, Houthi forces fired a missile toward central Israel before dawn, claiming it targeted &#8220;sensitive sites.&#8221; The Israeli military said the missile was intercepted by its air defenses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Saar-6 corvette, the latest-generation warship which Israel is using for its naval defense system amid maritime threats&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":57045,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[21754,21753,2895,85,46,34483,43,2893],"class_list":["post-57044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-drone-attack","tag-eilat","tag-houthi","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-missile","tag-news","tag-yemen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57044","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=57044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57044\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}