Houthis Claim Responsibility for Deadly Tel Aviv Explosion

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The Iran-backed Houthi militia claimed responsibility for a rare drone ******* in central Tel Aviv that crashed into a building near the ******* States Embassy branch office early Friday, ******** at least one person and wounding eight others.

Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari, the ******** military spokesman, told reporters that *******’s defense systems had apparently picked up the drone but ******* to register it as a threat. No air-raid sirens were activated to warn civilians of the *******, despite *******’s extensive aerial defense system.

“We are investigating why we did not identify it, ******* it and intercept it,” Admiral Hagari said.

An ******** military official, who briefed reporters on condition of anonymity, said there was a possibility that human error might have allowed the drone to penetrate ******** airspace, rather than a gap in the military’s detection systems.

The ******** military said the drone had likely flown from Yemen, where the Houthis are based, before approaching Tel Aviv from the coast. Video posted on X and verified by The New York Times shows what appears to be a unmanned aerial vehicle approaching west of Tel Aviv, followed by a blast at the location of the strike.

Pentagon officials expressed doubts that the Houthis were specifically targeting the U.S. diplomatic building, but could not rule it out.

It appeared to be the first time the Houthis had struck at such long range, more than 1,100 miles from the nearest Yemeni territory. “All ******** cities have now come under the reach of our targeting,” a Houthi brigadier general, Abed Al-Thawr, said in an interview. He added, “There are weapons that haven’t been unveiled yet.”

The two sides offered differing accounts of the type of drone used in the *******.

Nasruddin Amer, a Houthi spokesman, said in an interview that the drone, called Yaffa, had been fully manufactured in Yemen and that it had not previously been used for direct operational purposes. He said the drone bore technologies that made it difficult to detect.

But Admiral Hagari told reporters that the drone was a Samad-3, an Iranian model, that had been adapted for long-distance flight. He denied that it had stealth capabilities that enabled it to evade ******** surveillance.

Mr. Amer said that the ******* was a response to “an escalation in massacres against the ************ people in Gaza,” and that the Houthis would halt their assaults only when the war in Gaza ends and *******’s blockade of the enclave is lifted. He added that Iran was not involved in the decision to carry out the ******* on Tel Aviv, but he said the Houthis had updated the Iranians afterward.

*******’s defense minister, Yoav Gallant,

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that “anyone who tries to harm the state of ******* or sends ******* against it” will meet an ******** response “in a sharp and surprising way.”

Asked whether ******* would respond to Friday’s *******, Admiral Hagari said it would first work to fully assess the situation.

Iran-backed militants across the Middle East have fired masses of rockets and drones at ******* since ******’s Oct. 7 ******* triggered *******’s devastating campaign in Gaza. ******* has intercepted most of them, leaving central ******* mostly unscathed in recent months — until Friday, when the explosive-laden drone struck the building just after 3 a.m.

Since November, the Houthis have also been attacking ships along a vital route in the Red Sea in what they have described as a campaign in solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza. Admiral Hagari said that dozens of drones had been launched at ******* from Yemen since the war with ****** began in October, most of which were intercepted by ********* or ******** forces.

Hezbollah, based in Lebanon, has launched thousands of strikes on northern ******* since the start of the war, many of which *******’s antimissile defenses have thwarted. ******* has also launched thousands of strikes on Lebanon in that *******. Over 150,000 people have fled border towns in both countries, with little prospect of returning home.

Ron Huldai, the mayor of Tel Aviv, said the city was on heightened alert.

“The war is still here, and it is hard and painful,” he

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, referring to *******’s war with ****** in the Gaza Strip.

Matthew Mpoke Bigg, Eric Schmitt, Ronen Bergman and Shuaib Almosawa contributed reporting.

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