Soon after war broke out in October between Israel and Hamas, the Islamist group designated a terrorist organization by the US and European Union, the Houthi rebels who control northwestern Yemen joined in.

Yemen’s Houthi rebels have claimed they shot down another American-made MQ-9 Reaper drone, with video circulating online showing what appears to be a surface-to-air missile strike and flaming wreckage strewn across the ground.

Yemen’s Houthi group claimed responsibility for a missile attack on central Israel, according to a statement aired by the Houthi-run media. “To support the Palestinian people and Hamas, we carried out a qualitative military operation through which we targeted a military target of the Israeli enemy in the Jaffa area,