![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/houthi-missile-1000-1024x567.jpg\"\/)
A still from a video published by the Houthi Military Media X account claiming to show a \u201crocket salvo launch targeting sensitive sites of the Israeli enemy\u201d on June 8. <\/p>\n A still from a video published by the Houthi Military Media X account claiming to show a \u201crocket salvo launch targeting sensitive sites of the Israeli enemy\u201d on June 8. <\/p>\n
On June 8, Yemen\u2019s Houthis fired<\/a> missiles at central Israel as the Jewish state and Iran exchanged fire for the first time since the April 7 ceasefire<\/a> between the US, Israel, and Iran. The Yemeni terrorist group launched<\/a> two missiles, one of which was intercepted and one of which fell short. The Houthis claimed to be targeting sites in the Tel Aviv area. Iran fired<\/a> multiple missile barrages at Israel in the early hours of June 8 in response to an Israeli strike<\/a> against Hezbollah in Beirut\u2019s southern suburb of Dahiyeh on June 7.<\/p>\n In a statement after the attack, Yahya Saree, the Yemeni group\u2019s military spokesperson, also announced<\/a> \u201ca complete and total ban on maritime navigation on the Israeli enemy in the Red Sea,\u201d further stating, \u201cWe consider that all movements of the enemy to be a military target from the announcement of this statement.\u201d Iran\u2019s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps-Qods Force (IRGC-QF) Commander Esmail Qaani had threatened<\/a> to close the Bab al Maneb Strait, the vital strategic Red Sea chokepoint, in early June. The Houthis previously enacted a blockade on Israel\u2019s Red Sea port of Eilat and targeted vessels connected to Israel during the war in Gaza. However, the group had also targeted<\/a> vessels without ties to Israel or with vague or distant connections.<\/p>\n Saree described<\/a> the Houthis\u2019 attack and blockade as \u201cin the context of confronting American-Zionist aggression, and in line with the jihad and resistance axis in Iran, Palestine, Lebanon, Iraq, and Yemen, and in rejection of the Zionist project seeking to establish \u2018Greater Israel\u2019 under the so-called \u2018New Middle East,\u2019 which the American enemy seeks to impose upon the peoples of the region, and in pursuit of breaking the unjust and oppressive [US] blockade [on Iranian shipping in the Strait of Hormuz], and within the framework of the principle of unity of fronts and confronting the enemies, and in response to the Zionist aggression against Lebanon, Gaza, and Iran.\u201d<\/p>\n In a speech on June 5, the Houthis\u2019 leader, Abdulmalik al Houthi, reiterated<\/a> that the Yemeni terror group is in \u201cfull coordination\u201d with the other elements of the Axis of Resistance\u2014Iran and its proxies in Lebanon, Iraq, and Gaza.<\/p>\n The Houthis were previously slow to join the US-Israeli conflict with Iran, only attacking<\/a> Israel on March 28, a month after fighting began. They also opted not to close the Bab al Mandeb Strait at that time, despite threats<\/a> from the Iranians and their Yemeni partners that such an escalation was a possibility. In recent statements during the ceasefire, Abdulmalik al Houthi has focused<\/a> on fighting in Lebanon and the situation in Gaza as rallying points for his group to a greater extent than the US-Israeli confrontation with Iran, though he still expresses the Houthis\u2019 support for the Islamic Republic.<\/p>\n