Twenty injured in the attack of drones in Yemen against Israel, rescuers and military say

Rescuers say 20 people were injured in southern Israel after the Israeli military said it had been fired by Yemen drone.

Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) said the drone hit The resort town of Eilat on the shore of the Red Sea, with attempts to capture it.

The Magen David Adom emergency medical service said 20 people were taken to Yoseftal Hospital – two with serious limb injuries.

The Israeli media described it as a strike of Huti, but the Yemeni group did not formally take responsibility.

Israeli television stations broadcast live footage, which is said to be from the impact of the drone and the area in which he struck, which shows smoke smoke rising from the site.

Social media footage, checked by the BBC, show a drone in the sky that disappears beyond vision as it flies down behind the buildings. For a few moments later, the birds spread as they fly up into the sky.

“IDF troops, along with police in Israel, were sent to the Eilat area after receiving a report on the UAV attack,” IDF said.

He added troops and the police assisted the evacuation of the area and was located a helicopter to evacuate the wounded from the scene.

The military urged people to stay in protected areas for 10 minutes if they received a signal.

The army said earlier that Air Raid sirens had crept through the city.

The attack, if claimed by Huti, will be one of the most serious started by the group with regard to the victims.

In July 2024, one man was killed and 10 injured in Huti’s drones on Tel Aviv when a drone hit a residential building near the US Embassy office.

Eilat, popular with tourists, was the location of other recent drones attacks, one of which struck the area of ​​the city’s hotel last week, according to Israeli authorities. No victims are not reported.

Earlier in September, a man was wounded when Houthi drone struck Ramon Airport, right north of Eilat.

The Rebel Huthi group launches rockets and drones to Israel as part of what he describes as acts of solidarity with the Palestinians in the war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza.

The Hutists have also been attacking vessels in the Red Sea since the beginning of the Gaza war.

The Iranian supported rebel group, which considers Israel its enemy, controls Sana and the northwestern part of Yemen, but is not an internationally recognized government of the country.

Israel takes revenge on the bombing of Huti -controlled regions of Yemen, including the Red Sea port in Hudaida.

Earlier in September, the Huti Ministry said that 35 people had been killed in Israeli strikes on the province of Sana and Al-Jauf.

And in August, the group said his self-proclaimed Prime Minister Ahmed Galeb Nasser Al-Rahawi was killed in Israeli air strike.