The IDF on Tuesday night shot down a ballistic missile fired by the Yemen Houthis in central and southern Israel.
The military said it shot down that missile beyond Israel's borders, but that due to the speed and explosive power of such missiles it was necessary to activate warning sirens throughout portions of central and southern Israel.
Despite multiple days of US air strikes on the Houthis, they still managed to fire off a missile against the Jewish state, the first since the ceasefire with Hamas went into effect on January 19.
IDF sources said that absent the American attacks on the Houthis in recent days, the Yemen terror group might have fired even earlier on Israel and with a larger volume of attacks.
Throughout the war, the Houthis fired on Israel over 400 times.
The response
In turn, from July 2024 until the ceasefire in January, Jerusalem counterattacked Yemen five times, while the Biden administration also launched a series of restrained attacks on the Houthis.
There are hopes that the more aggressive attacks by the Trump administration on the Houthis, including their leaders for the first time, might finally reduce their interventions and attacks beyond their borders.