Israel is signaling a wider campaign against Houthi militants in Yemen, a mountainous and impoverished country more than 1,000 miles from Israeli territory.

An official says the Yemeni group will not stop until the war in Gaza ends, as Israel's PM says it is "just getting started".

Houthi forces carried out 13 attacks against Israeli targets in the past 10 days, the Yemeni group said on Sunday. The local 26 September website, an outlet linked to the Houthi-run Defense Ministry, said most of the attacks targeted Tel Aviv in central Israel using hypersonic ballistic missiles during the period from Dec. 19 to 28.

Yemen-based Houthis — the last of Iran-backed groups still fully present in the regional war that began 14 months ago — are slowly escalating attacks on Israel with an eye to avoid full-out retaliation.

Israel launched a multi-wave attack across Yemen in retaliation for Houthi missile and drone strikes, the Israeli military confirmed Thursday.

Israel's UN Ambassador told the UN Security Council, 'This is not a threat. It is a promise. You will share the same fate as those who sought to destroy us.'

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) have intercepted a missile launched from Yemen, attributed to the Iran-backed Houthi rebels. The interception occurred before the missile could enter Israeli airspace,