Drone Attack by Houthi Militia Strikes Tel Aviv

A drone attack claimed by the Iranian-backed Houthi militia targeted central Tel Aviv, killing one and wounding four. The incident follows the Israeli military's killing of a senior Hezbollah commander. The Houthis have a long history of conflict, stemming from Yemen's late 1990s religious revival movement.

An apparent drone attack - claimed by the Iranian-backed Houthi militia - hit central Tel Aviv in the early hours of Friday, killing one man and slightly wounding four others, the Israeli military and emergency services said. The explosion, which did not trigger air raid alarms, occurred hours after the Israeli military confirmed it had killed a senior commander of the Iran-backed Hezbollah militia in southern Lebanon.

The military spokesman of the Houthis said the group fired a drone at Tel Aviv and the city would remain a target.

In the late 1990s, the Houthi family in the far north of Yemen set up a religious revival movement for the Zaydi sect of Shi'ite Islam, which had once ruled Yemen but whose northern heartland had become impoverished and marginalized. As friction with the government in the capital Sanaa grew, they fought a series of guerrilla wars with the national army and a brief border conflict with Sunni Muslim Saudi Arabia.