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Ansar Allah (Houthis) struck the city of Eilat with a Kamikaze Drone, 20 maimed

2025-09-24

#Yemen / #Palestine / #Israel 🇾🇪🇵🇸🇮🇱: "Ansar Allah" (#Houthis) struck the city of #Eilat with a Kamikaze Drone.

Group seemingly launched a modern "Jaffa" (Improved "Samad-3") Loitering munition. Several people reportedly wounded, some in critical condition. pic.twitter.com/CrFDvzNY5K
— War Noir (@war_noir) September 24, 2025

Over 20 wounded, including 2 seriously, in Houthi drone attack on Eilat

[IsraelTimes] Unmanned aircraft explodes in shopping area after IDF fails to down it despite firing two Iron Dome interceptors; incident comes days after Houthi drone smashed into hotel in resort city

Over 20 people were maimed on Wednesday evening after a drone launched by the Iran's Houthi sock puppets
...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The legitimate Yemeni government has accused the them of having ties to the Iranian government. Honest they did. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews They like shooting off... ummm... missiles that they would have us believe they make at home in their basements. On the plus side, they did murder Ali Abdullah Saleh, which was the only way the country was ever going to be rid of him...
s in Yemen
...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of...
went kaboom! in Eilat, days after another smashed into a hotel in the Red Sea resort city.

Medics reported that among the injured were two men, ages 60 and 26, listed at death's door, along with a 30-year-old who was moderately hurt and 19 others with light wounds.

Most of the maimed were hit by shrapnel, with the Israeli Air Force dispatching two helicopters to evacuate those more severely hurt to Soroka Medical Center in Beersheba. Most of the injured were treated at Eilat’s Yoseftal Medical Center, the country’s smallest general hospital.

Footage from the attack showed the drone impact near a hotel in a shopping area.

The military acknowledged that attempts to intercept the drone had failed, with two Iron Dome interceptor missiles fired at the unmanned aircraft, while noting that sirens had sounded a warning of an attack "according to protocol."

The Israeli Air Force launched an investigation into the failure.

According to an initial probe by the IAF, the drone was detected late, though sirens were still activated by the Home Front Command to warn civilians. The failure of the Iron Dome to shoot down the drone was possibly because it was flying low, although this was still under investigation. Because of the late detection, the IAF did not have enough time to dispatch helicopters or fighter jets to shoot it down.

Footage posted to social media shows the moment a Houthi drone from Yemen hit Eilat in southern Israel, September 24, 2025. (Social media; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

IAF chief Maj. Gen. Tomer Bar told Eilat Mayor Eli Lankri that the drone did not represent a new threat and that business in the resort town should continue as usual.

"We will investigate the interception failure, learn and improve," Bar was cited as saying in a statement issued by the Eilat Municipality.

Bar said that aside from improving air defenses following the second successful attack on the city in a week, the air force would also concentrate on halting the source of the drones: Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthis.

According to the Prime Minister’s Office, Netanyahu told Lankri that he spoke with the senior IDF command about improving Eilat’s air defenses.

The Houthis later took responsibility for the attack, claiming to have launched two drones at two separate targets in Eilat, the second of which likely failed to reach Israel.

The Houthis also claimed to have launched several more drones at targets in Eilat and Beersheba a day earlier. There were no reports of drones reaching Israel from Yemen on Tuesday, or any being intercepted, indicating that they all failed to reach the country.

The Houthis have frequently carried out attacks targeting Eilat, including the incident last week in which a drone struck a hotel entrance, causing damage but no injuries. That drone had been identified by the air force, but attempts to intercept it failed, according to the military.

A Houthi attack earlier this month also hit Ramon Airport outside the city, causing damage and lightly wounding one person. That drone was detected, but was not classified as a threat due to a human error, an air force probe found.

Later Wednesday, a ballistic missile launched at Israel by the Houthis fell short outside the country’s borders, according to military officials. The IDF identified the launch, but no sirens sounded in Israel because the missile did not pose a threat.

Since March 18, when the IDF resumed its offensive against Hamas
Hamas

..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,...
in the Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
Strip, the Houthis in Yemen have launched nearly 90 ballistic missiles and at least 41 drones at Israel.

The Israeli Air Force carried out strikes, most recently last week, against military infrastructure at the Houthi-controlled port of Hodeida in western Yemen, in response to the Iran-backed group’s repeated attacks on Israel.

Last month, an Israeli strike on Sanaa killed the prime minister of Yemen’s Houthi government and several other ministers, with Israel warning that the attack on the group’s upper echelons was "just the beginning."

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