Houthis Claim Their Drones Can't Be Detected By Radar, Israel Calls Detected But Human Errors

The spokesman for the Houthi group, Brigadier General Yahya Saree. (Wikimedia Commons/You can help me or not.

JAKARTA - The Houthi-owned group claims its drones are capable of passing through Israel's radar system and interceptors, capable of hitting buildings in Tel Aviv, while the Israeli military claims the drone was detected but human error.

A large long-range drone reportedly hit a building in Tel Aviv and killed one person in the early hours of Friday local time.

The attack did not trigger an airstrike alarm. It came hours after the Israeli military confirmed it had killed a senior commander of Iran-backed Hezbollah militia in southern Lebanon.

A Houthi militant spokesman said the group had attacked Tel Aviv by drone and would continue to target Israel as a form of solidarity with Palestine in the Gaza war.

In a televised address, Houthi spokesman Brigadier General Yahya Saree called Tel Aviv the main target "within our arms reach".

He said the attack was carried out using a new drone called "Yafa" which he said was capable of passing through the interception system and was not detected by radar.

"The operation has achieved its goal successfully," Brigadier General Saree said.

Meanwhile, an initial Israeli Air Force (IAF) investigation into last night's drone strike in Tel Aviv revealed that an explosive UAV had been identified, but due to human error, the UAV was not intercepted by air defenses.

"Because no action was taken against the identified target, no warning sirens were heard," he said, as quoted by The Times of Israel.

The drone immediately hit an apartment in Tel Aviv at 3:12 am, after entering the city from the sea. However, the IAF is still investigating the origin of the drone.

The IAF has so far believed the drone came from the south, perhaps Yemen, although it did not rule out other launch sites, such as Iraq or Syria.

The IAF said the deadly incident "should not have happened" and was fully responsible for the failure to cause the deadly attack, in which a man was killed and four others injured.

Footage from the scene showed a clear impact on a building located close to the US embassy's location in Tel Aviv.

Meanwhile, Israeli media said fragments of similar drones widely used by Iran-backed militia groups in the region had been found nearby.