More than 20 injured in Houthi drone strike on Israel’s Eilat

CAIRO – 25 September 2025: More than 20 people were injured, including two in critical condition, when a drone launched from Yemen struck the southern Israeli city of Eilat on Wednesday evening.

The Israeli military said two Iron Dome interceptor missiles were fired at the drone but failed to bring it down.

The incident follows a similar attack days earlier, when a Houthi drone crashed in Eilat’s hotel district, causing property damage but no casualties.

The Houthis in Yemen said in a video statement they had carried out two operations using multiple drones against targets in Umm al-Rashrash (the Arabic name of Eilat) and in Beersheba.

The group declared the attacks had “successfully achieved their objectives.”

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he had instructed the military to consider options for retaliation, warning that any strike on Israeli cities would be answered “with a painful blow to the Houthi regime.”

Defense Minister Israel Katz echoed the threat, vowing the Houthis would “learn the hard way,” and declaring in a post on X that “whoever harms Israel will be harmed sevenfold.”

He asserted that the Houthis “refuse to learn from Iran, Lebanon, and Gaza.”