drone claimed by Yemen’s Huthi rebels slipped through Israel’s vaunted air defence system on Friday to hit a Tel Aviv building near a US embassy annex,In a statement, Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi rebels said their “UAV force” attacked “one of the important targets in the occupied Jaffa region, what is now called Israeli Tel Aviv.”The Houthis have repeatedly launched drones and missiles toward Israel throughout the nine-month-long war, claiming to be doing so in solidarity with the Palestinian people.
But, until Friday, all were intercepted by either Israel or Western allies with forces stationed in the region.
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