Rescuers say 20 people have been injured in southern Israel after the Israeli military said a drone was launched from Yemen.<\/p>\n
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said the drone struck the town of Eilat on the Red Sea coast, with attempts made to intercept it.<\/p>\n
The Magen David Adom emergency medical service said 20 people were taken to Yoseftal Hospital – two with serious limb injuries.<\/p>\n
Israeli media has described it as a Houthi strike but the Yemeni group has not officially claimed responsibility. <\/p>\n
Israeli TV stations broadcast live footage said to be of the drone strike and the area it hit, which showed billowing smoke rising from the site.<\/p>\n
“IDF troops, alongside the Israel Police, were dispatched to the area of Eilat after receiving a report of a UAV attack,” the IDF said in a statement.<\/p>\n
It added that troops and the police were assisting in evacuating the area and a helicopter had been deployed to evacuate the wounded from the scene. <\/p>\n
The military urged people to stay in protected areas for 10 minutes should they receive an alert.<\/p>\n
The attack, if claimed by the Houthis, would be one of the most serious launched by the group in terms of casualties.<\/p>\n
In July 2024, one person was killed and 10 injured in a Houthi drone attack on Tel Aviv when a drone struck an apartment building near the US embassy branch office.<\/p>\n
Earlier in September, one person was wounded when a Houthi drone hit Ramon Airport, just north of Eilat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rescuers say 20 people have been injured in southern Israel after the Israeli military said a drone was…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":251467,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[99,50],"class_list":{"0":"post-251466","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-israel","9":"tag-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115260189975107914","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=251466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251466\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/251467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}