The Houthis claimed a hypersonic missile attack on an Israeli Air Force base in the Negev Desert

Yemeni Houthis from the rebel Ansar Allah movement claimed a missile strike on Dec. 28 on the Nevatim airbase in the Negev desert in southern Israel.

"Rocket troops of the Yemeni armed forces <...> struck the Israeli enemy's Nevatim airbase in the Negev region in southern occupied Palestine," Houthi military spokesman Yahya Saria wrote in his Telegram channel.

According to him, the strike used a Palestine-2 hypersonic ballistic missile, which successfully hit its target.

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Earlier on December 26, the Israeli Air Force reported a massive series of strikes on an airbase and airport in northern Sanaa, Yemen. The port of Hodeidah in the west of the country was also attacked. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he was determined to fight the "hand of Iran" in Yemen.

On the same day, the Houthis threatened a swift response to Israel's bombardment of Yemen and then launched a rocket attack on Ben-Gurion Airport in Tel Aviv on Dec. 27.

The situation in the Middle East escalated on the morning of October 7, 2023, when the Palestinian radical movement Hamas subjected Israeli territory to a massive rocket attack from the Gaza Strip. On the same day, Israel began retaliatory strikes.