Houthi leader Abdul-Malik al-Houthi addresses followers via a video link at the al-Shaab Mosque, formerly al-Saleh Mosque, in Sanaa, Yemen, Feb. 6, 2024. Photo: REUTERS/Khaled Abdullah

Israel’s military said on Saturday it intercepted a missile fired from Yemen and Houthi forces claimed responsibility for the attack, the third of its kind by the Iran-aligned group in 24 hours.

The Israeli military said sirens were activated in a number of areas in Israel after the missile was launched. No casualties or serious damage have been reported from the missile salvos.

The claim of responsibility, announced by the Houthis’ military spokesperson, came amid an intensification of US airstrikes on Houthi targets in Yemen.

In March, US President Donald Trump ordered large-scale strikes against the Houthis to reduce their capabilities and deter them from targeting commercial shipping in the Red Sea.

The deadly strikes on the group have been the biggest US military operation in the Middle East since Trump took office in January.

The Houthis say their attacks on Israel and Red Sea shipping are in solidarity with the Palestinians in the war between Hamas terrorists and Israel in Gaza.

The group pledged to expand its range of targets in Israel in retaliation for a renewed Israeli offensive in Gaza launched in mid-March, breaking a two-month-old ceasefire after the mediated talks on terms for extending it broke down.

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Mohsen Rezaee, the secretary of Iran’s Expediency Discernment Council. Photo: Foad Ashtari via Wikimedia Commons.

i24 News – The former head of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards Corps took to X, formerly Twitter, on Saturday to make the claim that the foreign policy of US President Donald Trump is under the sway of “neocons” and Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu.

“Before taking office in the White House, Trump claimed that he had plans for an immediate end to the wars; but the war in Ukraine continues, the ceasefire in Gaza and Lebanon has been broken, and the Israeli occupation army has occupied parts of Syria,” Mohsen Rezaee, now the head of the Supreme Council for Economic Coordination, wrote in Persian.

“Regarding negotiations with Iran, the Islamic Republic of Iran has shown its seriousness and willingness to negotiate and reach an agreement. However, Trump and his team, influenced by Netanyahu and the neocons, are still in confusion and turmoil.”

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National Security Advisor Mike Waltz meeting with Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and Secretary of State Marco Rubio. January 28, 2025. Source: https://x.com/WhiteHouse/status/1884391528933777687

i24 News – As US President Donald Trump announced earlier in the week the decision to ouster his national security advisor, a report claims that Michael Waltz’s “intense coordination” with Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu has contributed to his sacking.

According to The Washington Post, while “Waltz’s fate was sealed” by his apparently accidental inclusion of an Atlantic journalist on a sensitive Signal group chat in March, he also “upset” Trump after an Oval Office visit by Netanyahu, “when the national security adviser appeared to share the Israeli leader’s conviction that the time was ripe to strike Iran.”

The report quoted an administration insider as saying that Waltz “wanted to take US policy in a direction Trump wasn’t comfortable with because the US hadn’t attempted a diplomatic solution.”

The US is now engaged in nuclear talks with Iranian representatives.

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