The Israeli army said he struck from Yemen on Wednesday, which started from Yemen, on Wednesday hit the city of a southern resort, while rescuers reported almost two dozen injured.
The military statement said the drone “fell in the Eilat region” on the Red Sea coast after the air defense could not capture it, in the second incident in a few days.
The Israeli emergency medical service Magen David Adom said her teams were treated with 22 victims, including two men aged 26 and 60 who were in serious condition with Shrapnel wounds.
One person was slightly injured by the injury of the shrapnel back and 19 others were in a slight condition, “Srapnel and other injuries suffered,” said the medical service.
The police said the drone fell in the center of Eilat’s city and caused damage in the area visited by tourists.
The footage shared on social media, which AFP could not independently verified, showed drones flying over the center before they collapsed with the smoke rising from the impact area.
There was no immediate entitlement to the responsibility for the attack that occurred on the second day of the Jewish New Year Rosh Hashanah.
Since the end of 2023, Yemeni rebels supported by Iran have requested similar attacks during the Gaza War.
In an interview with the Israeli Canal 12, the mayor of Eilat Eli Lankri called on the government to “hit Huthis hard” in retaliation for drones attack.
Lankri added that repeated huthi attacks were disrupted by Eilat’s port operations.
The army previously said that the Air Raid sirens rang all over Eilat, a popular resort on the Israeli southern tip near the Egypt and Jordanian borders, where the Israeli authorities reported a drone strike on Thursday.
Yemen’s Huthis has repeatedly released missiles and drones in Israel since the beginning of the Gaza War, and a group of insurgents said he acted in support of the Palestinian ally Hamas, whose attack in October 2023 caused war.
In the Gaza Strip, the Israeli army pushed its attack on the city of Gaza on Wednesday, where hundreds of thousands of Palestinians were forced to flee.
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