The Houthis’ military spokesman Yahya Saree said in a statement posted on X that the group targeted Israel’s Nevatim air base with a “hypersonic ballistic missile type Palestine 2”.

Israel said it intercepted the missile, after air raid sirens sounded in several areas in Israel’s south.

Sirens went off in Beersheba and parts of the Negev desert, according to the Israeli military’s Home Front Command.

It was the first reported attack on Israel from Yemen since a ceasefire in the Israeli genocidal war on Gaza came into force on January 19.