Yemen's Houthis launch missile attack on Israel as war on Iran intensifies

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/3/28/yemens-houthis-claim-responsibility-for-a-missile-attack-on-israel-2

Mohammed Mansour, the Houthis deputy information minister, told local media on Saturday, “We are conducting this battle in stages, and closing the Bab al-Mandab Strait is among our options.”

Al Jazeera’s Yousef Mawry, reporting from Yemen’s capital Sanaa, said a potential naval blockade on Israel-linked ships passing through the Bab al-Mandab Strait would hurt Israel’s economy, as about 30 percent of its imports pass through the waterway in the Red Sea.