Brigadier-General Yahya Saree, a military spokesman for the Iran-allied group, said in a message broadcast on a Houthi satellite network that the attack had targeted “sensitive Israeli military sites” in the south of the country.
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The Houthis have repeatedly warned that they would enter the war on the side of Iran, which has supplied them with ballistic missile technology for years.
In the month since, Iran’s counterattacks have struck U.S. bases across the Gulf, strategic Gulf infrastructure, and drastically slowed shipping in the Strait of Hormuz.
The Houthis played a similarly outsized role in upending global shipping between November 2023 and January 2025 when they attacked over 100 merchant vessels in the Red Sea in a campaign of solidarity with Palestinians during the Gaza war.
Thomas Juneau, a professor at the University of Ottawa’s Graduate School of Public and International Affairs and an associate fellow with Chatham House, tells TIME that if Houthi strikes remain limited to a small number of direct attacks on Israel, “they will not have a major impact on the evolution of the war.”
But if the group decides to attack shipping on the Red Sea again, that would change things.
Attacks on the Red Sea and the Bab al-Mandab Strait would likely disrupt traffic through the Suez Canal, through which around 15% of global maritime trade — including 30% of container ship traffic—travels each year.
Who are the Houthis?
Although they are backed by and allied with Iran, the Houthis are not a straightforward proxy, and they often prioritize their own domestic interests. And although Iran has supplied it with sophisticated ballistic missile technology, the group has also developed the ability to assemble and manufacture its own weaponry inside Yemen.
The group has since faced two bombing campaigns by two successive U.S. administrations.
Those strikes failed to deter the Houthis and only stopped when a ceasefire was brokered between Israel and Hamas in January 2025.
Trump launched his own bombing campaign in April 2025 to stop those attacks, which ended when the Trump Administration struck a deal with the Houthis in May to end airstrikes if the group stopped attacks on shipping. The deal did not include an agreement to stop attacks against Israel, which continued until an eventual ceasefire was reached in Gaza.
“You could say there’s a lot of bravery there,” he added.
'Outlast the war itself'
Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Friday that U.S. military operations were expected to be concluded in "weeks, not months".
"We estimated it would take approximately four to six weeks to achieve our mission, and we're way ahead of schedule," the President said during a Cabinet meeting on Thursday. "If you look at what we've done in terms of the destruction of that country, I mean, we're way ahead."
“The answer here depends on whether the Houthis further escalate or not,” he says.
“This impact, crucially, will outlast the war itself, given mounting supply chain disruptions—and could therefore hurt Republicans more as we approach the November midterm elections,” he adds.
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