Newsweek

For the first time since the war broke out on October 7, the Israeli military said that it used its Arrow missile defense system to intercept a surface-to-surface missile fired toward its territory.

According to a spokesperson for the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) who spoke with Reuters Tuesday, the missile had been shot from the direction of the Red Sea. A separate aerial attack was also intercepted by IDF fighter jets off the Red Sea city of Eilat, read the report. Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi group said it launched a “large number” of drones and ballistic missiles toward Israel Tuesday, but there were no reports of any air strikes reaching Israeli territory.

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