The Iranian-backed rebels have kept up a steady drumbeat of attacks in the Red Sea on commercial shipping despite a U.S. campaign to stop them.

A missile launched from Yemen triggered air raid sirens across central Israel sending millions of residents looking for cover for the second night in a row.

Masirah said that some of the strikes targeted power stations in the capital, as well as the Ras Isa oil terminal on the Red Sea.

The Houthis have been attacking ships in the Red Sea for more than a year in what they have described as a campaign in solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza.

The Israeli army said an attempt to intercept a projectile launched from Yemen overnight, some 2,000 kilometres away, was unsuccessful. Several people were injured after the projectile fell in Tel Aviv,

An Ansar Allah source told Newsweek that Israel "represents a danger to Yemen and to various Arab and Islamic countries."

Israel has bombed key ports in Yemen as well as the country's capital Sana'a in response to more than a year of missile and drone attacks launched by the country's Houthi rebels, the military said on Thursday.

Israel carried out airstrikes early Thursday in Yemen in response to a Houthi attack hours earlier, the latest move by Israeli forces to weaken Iran and its proxies in the region. The first wave of strikes hit military targets in the ports of Al-Hudaydah,

Yemen's Huthi rebels on Tuesday said they fired a "ballistic missile" at central Israel, after the Israeli military said it intercepted a "projectile".

The spate of Houthi attacks on the Israeli homefront has caused great alarm across the country. Last week, a missile from Yemen severely damaged a school in Ramat Gan, an affluent Tel Aviv suburb. A subsequent Israeli air strike targeted power plants in the Yemeni capital of Sana.

Yemen's Houthi forces have launched drone and missile strikes on Israel, targeting Ashkelon and Tel Aviv. These attacks are part of Yemen's stated support for Palestine, citing retaliation for Israel's actions in Gaza.