Israel will act “forcefully” against the Houthis, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday, a day after a missile fired from Yemen struck Tel Aviv.

After a renewed attack by the Houthi militia on Israel, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed to take powerful military action against the Islamists in Yemen on Sunday. "Just as we have acted forcefully against the terror arms of Iran's axis of evil,

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday Israel would continue acting against the Iran-backed Houthis in Yemen, whom he accused of threatening world shipping and the international order, and called on Israelis to be steadfast.

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.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accused the rebels of threatening world shipping and the international order. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Israel carried out airstrikes in Yemen in response to a Houthi attack hours earlier, the latest move by Israeli forces to weaken Iran and its proxies.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday vowed to retaliate against Yemen's Huthi rebels after they fired a missile at Tel Aviv, warning that Israel would target what he described as the last remaining arm of "Iran's axis of evil".