{"id":550098,"date":"2026-03-28T08:44:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-28T08:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/550098\/"},"modified":"2026-03-28T08:44:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T08:44:08","slug":"yemens-houthis-launch-missile-attack-on-israel-as-war-on-iran-intensifies-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/550098\/","title":{"rendered":"Yemen\u2019s Houthis launch missile attack on Israel as war on Iran intensifies | News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Published On 28 Mar 202628 Mar 2026<\/p>\n

Yemen\u2019s Houthi rebels attacked Israel with a barrage of ballistic missiles \u2013 their first such strikes since the US-Israel war on Iran began.<\/p>\n

Brigadier-General Yahya Saree, a military spokesman for the Houthis, announced the attack on Saturday on the rebels\u2019 Al-Masirah satellite television.<\/p>\n

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Strikes \u201cwill continue until the declared objectives are achieved, as stated in the previous statement<\/a> by the armed forces, and until the aggression against all fronts of the resistance ceases\u201d, Saree said.<\/p>\n

The Israeli military said it intercepted one missile.<\/p>\n

The attack came hours after Saree signaled in a vague statement Friday that the rebels would join the war that has rattled the Middle East and shocked the global economy.<\/p>\n

He said the rebels fired a barrage of ballistic missiles targeting what he described as \u201csensitive Israeli military sites\u201d in southern Israel.<\/p>\n

Sirens went off around Beer Sheba and the area near Israel\u2019s main nuclear research centre for the third time overnight Friday into Saturday as Iran and Hezbollah continued to fire on Israel overnight.<\/p>\n

The Houthis have held Yemen\u2019s capital, Sanaa, since 2014 and so far stayed out of the US-Israel war.<\/p>\n

The militia\u2019s attacks on shipping vessels during the Israel-Hamas war upended commercial transit in the Red Sea, through which about $1 trillion worth of goods passed each year.<\/p>\n

The Houthi rebels attacked more than 100 merchant vessels with missiles and drones, sinking two ships and killing four sailors, from November 2023 until January 2025.<\/p>\n

In 2024, the Trump administration launched strikes against the Houthis that ended weeks later.<\/p>\n

\u2018Significant\u2019 strike<\/p>\n

Mohamad Elmasry, a professor of Media Studies at the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies, described the Houthis entering the US-Israeli war on Iran as \u201cvery significant\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have seen over the past two-and-a-half years that Houthis have significant power,\u201d Elmasry told Al Jazeera.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf they decided to move to shut down Bab al-Mandab Strait<\/a>, the Red Sea and, ultimately, the Suez Canal then we would have two major choke points [shut down] along with the Strait of Hormuz,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese are major international shipping waterways for international trade, so I think it can be very significant from that standpoint.\u201d<\/p>\n

Al Jazeera\u2019s Nida Ibrahim, reporting from Ramallah, said the opening of a new front in the war, in addition to Iran and Hezbollah, is likely to raise further questions in Israel \u201con the viability of the operations and the way the government is conducting its war\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are expecting Israel to retaliate to this attack, as we have seen them do time and again when Yemen joined the battle during the war in Gaza as a way to support the Palestinians,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

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