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Yemen's Houthi rebels have claimed responsibility for launching a missile strike targeting Israel's Tel Aviv, which injured 14 people.
Israel says the missile fell in the town of Bnei Brak in the Tel Aviv area.
The Israeli Defense Forces said it failed to intercept the strike, and launched retaliatory hits on ports and facilities controlled by the Houthis.
Yemen's Houthi militants have claimed responsibility for launching a missile strike at Tel Aviv, which injured at least 14 people.
In a statement, the rebel group said it had "targeted a military target of the Israeli enemy in the occupied area of" Tel Aviv using a ballistic missile.
The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) had earlier said it failed to intercept the strike, and Israel's ambulance service said its paramedics were treating patients with minor shrapnel injuries on Saturday, local time, with some taken to hospital.
The country's police also reported receiving reports of a missile that had fallen in the town of Bnei Brak in the Tel Aviv area.
"Following the sirens that sounded a short while ago in central Israel, one projectile launched from Yemen was identified and unsuccessful interception attempts were made," the IDF said on its Telegram channel.
Israeli emergency services officers were rushed to inspect the scene of a missile strike near Tel Aviv, which Israel says was launched from Yemen. (Reuters: Stoyan Nenov)
Yahya Saree, a spokesman for the Houthis, said the group had fired ballistic missiles at "two specific and sensitive military targets … in the occupied Yaffa area", referring to the Jaffa region near Tel Aviv.
Yemen's Iranian-backed Houthi rebels have repeatedly fired drones and missiles towards Israel since the conflict in Gaza began, in what the group describes as an act of solidarity with Palestinians.
In retaliation, the IDF said it had struck multiple targets in Yemen, including ports and energy facilities in areas controlled by the Houthis.
The strikes follow a drone attack claimed by the Houthis, which exploded on December 9 on the top floor of a residential building in the central Israeli city of Yavne. No-one was killed in that strike.
An Israeli bomb disposal unit officer inspecting rubble at a school building destroyed in a separate missile strike, which Israeli also says came from Yemen. (AFP: Jack Guez)
In July, another Houthi-claimed drone attack targeted Tel Aviv and killed an Israeli civilian.
The Israeli military launched retaliatory strikes on the Yemeni port of Hodeidah after that attack.
The rebel group has also regularly targeted shipping in the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden, leading to retaliatory strikes on Houthi targets by US and British forces.
The Australian government listed the Houthis, which also uses the name Ansar Allah, as a terrorist organisation in May and describes the group as "a Zaydi Shia violent extremist organisation".
At least 25 dead in Gaza strikes
Air strikes launched by Israeli forces killed at least 25 Palestinians in Gaza on Friday, including at least eight in an apartment in the Nuseirat refugee camp and at least 10 — including seven children — in the town of Jabalia, according to local medics.
The dead and injured from within the refugee camp were taken to the Aqsa and Awda hospitals.
The IDF did not immediately comment on the strikes, but Israel has previously said it only strikes targets it has evidence to believe are inhabited by Hamas militants.
Israeli strikes kill nine in Houthi-controlled Yemen
Photo shows A group of men gather around a smoking power station with palm trees in the background.
Mediators are yet to secure a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas after more than a year of conflict.
Israel began its conflict in Gaza after Hamas-led terrorists attacked Israeli communities on October 7, 2023, killing 1,200 people and taking over 250 hostages, according to Israeli tallies.
Israel says about 100 hostages are still being held, but it is unclear how many are alive.
Authorities in Gaza say Israel's campaign has killed more than 45,000 Palestinians and displaced most of the population of 2.3 million.
Palestinian officials say Israelis vandalised mosque
The head of the Palestinian village council said on Friday that Israeli settlers had set fire to a mosque and vandalised other property in the northern occupied West Bank.
Nasfat al-Khafash, the head of the council in Marda where the attack occurred, said a group of settlers arrived early in the morning, setting the mosque alight and scrawling hateful messages on it.
Vision from the Associated Press news service showed spray-painted stars of David and the words in Hebrew, "the mosque will burn, the temple will be built," in an apparent reference to the ultranationalist desire to establish a Third Temple for Jews in Jerusalem at the holiest and most contested site in the Holy Land.
"These slogans reflect their upbringing and hatred towards Palestinians and Arabs," said al-Khafash, adding that the settlers received "full support" from the government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Israel's police, military and Shin Bet internal security agency said they were investigating the incident.
"We view the incident seriously and will act with determination to bring those responsible to justice," the organisations said in a statement.
In the West Bank and east Jerusalem, more than 700,000 Jewish settlers have Israeli citizenship, while the 3 million Palestinians in the territory live under Israeli military law.
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