At around 4:00am on Thursday, the Houthis fired another missile at Israel.
By Rachel Avraham
The IDF identified early Thursday morning, shortly after 4:00 a.m., the launch of a missile from Yemen toward Israeli territory, Arutz Sheva reported.
According to the report, the IDF said that aerial defense systems are operating to intercept the threat. The public is requested to follow the Home Front Command’s defensive guidelines, Arutz Sheva added.
At 4:25 a.m., the IDF said that a missile launched from Yemen was intercepted by the IAF, Arutz Sheva stressed.. According to the report, no sirens were sounded in accordance with protocol. However, residents of central Israel reported hearing explosions as a result of the interception.
This came after the Times of Israel reported an attempted Houthi drone attack on August 12. In a statement, the Iran-backed terror group says it launched six drones at Israel, targeting “vital targets” in Haifa, the Negev Desert, Eilat, and Beersheba, the Times of Israel reported. “The operations successfully achieved their objectives, thanks to Allah,” the Houthis claim according to the Times of Israel report.
The IDF reported earlier on August 12th the shooting down one drone off the coast of Eilat, which did not set off sirens in Israel’s southernmost city because it posed no threat, the Times of Israel added. According to the report, the other five drones likely fell short before reaching the country’s borders, as many Houthi projectiles have previously.
The Houthis have been waging war on Israel since October 19th, 2023, just days after the October 7th massacre. They have been known to routinely fire missiles and drones at Israel in addition to attacking ships in the Red Sea, which eventually led to a fifty percent drop in traffic traveling through the Suez Canal and the shutting down of the port of Eilat. According to the Anti-Defamation League, the Houthis have also attacked more than 50 US naval vessels in the Red Sea, leading US military officials to characterize the situation as the “the most intense running sea battle the Navy has faced since World War II.”
According to the American Jewish Committee, the Houthi movement’s ideology is deeply rooted in antisemitic, Islamic fundamentalist, anti-American sentiment, as reflected in the slogan on its flag: “Allah is great, death to the USA, death to Israel, curse the Jews, victory to Islam.” According to the Houthis, turmoil in the Arab and Muslim world is because a previous, natural order – in which Jews were subjugated by Arabs and Muslims – has been relinquished, the Anti-Defamation League reported.
Apparently, the Houthis, very much like Hamas, also indoctrinate children into their antisemitic belief system. The Anti-Defamation League reported that a children’s cartoon broadcast in March 2024 on the Houthis’ Shaba TV network, entitled “The Temporary Entity,” featured antisemitic indoctrination including child-characters swearing to “fight and annihilate [the Jews].” When a child character says “I would like to know about the most cunning enemies of the Muslims,” his counterparts reply “do you mean the Jews?” A group of child characters is then transported to 19th Century Budapest, where they are told “you should know that the whole world hated the Jews […] because of their evil moral values and because they are treacherous.” The cartoon goes on to portray Theadore Herzl as dreaming of the “political and economic control of the world.”
