YEMEN’S Houthi led government claimed responsibility today for an early morning drone strike that hit a part of central Tel Aviv near the US embassy, leaving at least 10 injured and one dead.

Yemen’s Houthi government has repeatedly launched drones and missiles toward Israel throughout the latter’s nine-month invasion of Gaza. Before today all were intercepted by either Israel or Western allies with forces stationed in the region.

Yemeni spokesman Yahya Sare’e said that the strike was in retaliation for Israel’s war against the Palestinians.

The Houthis claim their newest drones can bypass Israel’s aerial defence systems. But a spokesperson for Israel’s military said the explosive-laden drone had been identified on Thursday and attributed the hit to “human error.”

The military said its assessment of aerial threats had not changed and that Israel’s adversaries have attempted such strikes for months.

“It was a terror attack that was targeted to kill civilians in Israel,” the Israeli spokesperson said.

Israel has so far not attacked Yemen, leaving the US and Britain to bomb that country as it targets its resources on the war against the Palestinians in Gaza and exchanges of fire with Lebanon’s Hezbollah group.