Israel: 20 Wounded in Houthi Drone Attack on Eilat
“The Israeli Air Force said attempts were made to intercept the drone before it fell in the city’s tourism district.”
Several people were reported injured on Wednesday evening when a Houthi drone struck a tourist center in the southern Israeli city of Eilat.
” Over 20 people were wounded by shrapnel on Wednesday after a drone from Yemen exploded in Eilat, days after another Houthi smashed into a hotel in the Red Sea resort city,” The Times of Israel reported. “Medics reported that among the injured were two men ages 60 and 26 listed in serious condition, along with a 30-year-old who was moderately hurt and 19 others with light wounds.”
At least 20 people have been injured after a drone launched by the Houthis in Yemen made impact in the southern Israeli city of Eilat. pic.twitter.com/6ohjGzIsqe
— Hamdah Salhut (@hamdahsalhut) September 24, 2025
The drone fired from Yemen “struck the tourist district near the “Mall Hayam” shopping center,” the Israel Hayom reported
The newspaper added:
The Israeli Air Force said attempts were made to intercept the drone before it fell in the city’s tourism district. Security officials are investigating how the aircraft evaded Israel’s multilayered air defense systems and exploded in such a crowded area.
BREAKING: A Houthi-launched drone struck Eilat near a hotel, injuring five people: two seriously and three lightly.
While the world debates borders and consulate addresses, this is the daily reality for Israelis. pic.twitter.com/1IGEGk8pzY
— Hen Mazzig (@HenMazzig) September 24, 2025
The Israeli military was at the scene to assist the rescue work “IDF troops, alongside the Israel Police, were dispatched to the area of Eilat after receiving a report of a UAV attack,” the military said in a statement.
“The troops are assisting in evacuating civilians from the area and providing initial medical care,” the IDF added.
Footage shows a Yemeni drone striking a luxury hotel in Eilat just minutes ago. Reports say the IDF attempted two interceptions and failed. One Israeli killed, 24 injured. pic.twitter.com/jJJAHEjlkK
— Jalyssa Dugrot (@jalyssaspeaking) September 24, 2025
Israel releases footage of Hamas terrorists firing at IDF troops from within Gaza hospital
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF), on Wednesday, released the footage of Hamas terrorists firing at Israeli troops from within the Shifa Hospital in the Gaza Strip. “A few days ago, significant live fire was identified as being conducted out from Shifa Hospital in Gaza City,” the IDF said in a statement.
The 900-bed hospital has served as a Hamas commander center and an underground dungeon for holding hostages after the October 7 attack. The continued use of Shifa and other Gaza hospitals is a deliberate Hamas strategy to maximize civilian casualties.
“The use of a civilian structure, and particularly an active hospital, is further proof of Hamas’ cynical and systematic modus operandi of exploiting civilian infrastructure as manned terror command posts,” the IDF statement added. “By doing so, Hamas knowingly endangers the lives of patients, medical staff and innocent civilians in the Strip.” The IDF has set up humanitarian areas away from the combat zone and is facilitating the evacuation of Gaza residents despite Hamas’s efforts to block them from fleeing the city.
Since the war began in the wake of the October 7 massacre, Palestinian terror groups have used Shifa and other hospitals in Gaza as bases for sheltering terrorists and hoarding weaponry. The Gaza-based terrorist organizations, Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad, have been “using Shifa as a command and control center and military headquarters,” the IDF disclosed in April 2024.
⭕️ WATCH: Hamas terrorists fired live rounds from within the Shifa Hospital in Gaza City.
By using an active hospital as a terror launch post, Hamas endangers patients, medical staff and civilians, proving once again its systematic exploitation of civilian infrastructure.
The… pic.twitter.com/h39XT8cdS0
— Israel Defense Forces (@IDF) September 24, 2025
In November 2023, the IDF raided the Shifa Hospital, discovering that some of the hostages had been held in the terror tunnel below the facility. Hamas terrorists had booby trapped the tunnel’s blast doors, hoping to kill Israeli soldiers who would come in search of the hostages.
In March 2024, Israeli troops again entered the Hamas-infested hospital in a surprise operation, eliminating over 200 terrorists and capturing 500 others in a two-week-long close-quarters combat.
Flashback: Hamas terrorists dragged Israeli hostages into their main headquarters beneath Gaza’s Shifa Hospital.
Hospital staff helped the terrorists not the hostages. pic.twitter.com/qE98wESzUD
— Liza Rosen (@LizaRosen0000) September 5, 2025
The Jerusalem Post reported the latest IDF revelations, recalling Hamas’s previous use of Shifa Hospital for its terrorist activities:
The IDF identified terrorists firing from Gaza’s Shifa Hospital a few days ago, the military stated on Wednesday, publishing aerial footage of the incident along with the statement. (…)
In using the hospital in this way, Hamas is intentionally putting at risk the lives of civilians, including hospital patients and staff, the military added. (…)
The footage comes as the latest evidence of terrorist exploitation of Shifa Hospital, something Israel has warned over the course of the war.
In a June interview with N12 news, former hostage Emily Damari said she was taken to Shifa Hospital after being kidnapped on October 7, 2023.
Earlier in January 2024, the IDF uncovered a 250-meter-long tunnel system underneath the hospital.
Shifa Hospital’s director, Dr. Muhammad Abu Salmiya, was initially arrested in November 2023 for allegedly allowing Hamas to use the hospital as a terror base.
The IDF later affirmed the allegation during its operation at the facility the following April, during which it killed some 200 terrorists and arrested hundreds more.
#BREAKING: The IDF has breached the blast-proof door in the Hamas tunnel underneath Shifa Hospital. pic.twitter.com/OAOZ9VxjpC
— Israel War Room (@IsraelWarRoom) November 21, 2023
Gaza City: Israeli troops dismantle Hamas compounds, locate weapons
With the IDF ground operation to capture Gaza City entering its second week, Israeli troops are destroying Hamas terror infrastructure above and below the ground. Nahal Brigade, the IDF’s main infantry formation, is playing a key role in degrading Hamas’s terrorist capabilities in the city.
“Troops from the Nahal Brigade are operating in Gaza City and continue to strike terrorist infrastructure sites that pose a threat to IDF troops,” the military said in a press release on Wednesday. “During their activity, the troops encountered a terrorist and engaged in close-quarters combat, the terrorist was eliminated.”
Troops of the Nahal Infantry Brigade killed a gunman in a close-quarters battle deep in Gaza City, the military says.
The IDF says the Nahal Brigade has advanced further into Gaza City in recent days, amid an ongoing offensive against Hamas.
In addition to killing the gunman,… pic.twitter.com/iOC4Yws8iT
— Emanuel (Mannie) Fabian (@manniefabian) September 24, 2025
Israeli “troops located numerous weapons, including firearms, magazines, body armor and IDF uniforms,” the military revealed. They “dismantled an active terrorist compound from which a rocket was launched toward IDF troops.”
🎯WATCH: The IDF dismantled a terror compound in Gaza City that was used to launch a rocket at Israeli forces. pic.twitter.com/YMAnQY6gYa
— Israel War Room (@IsraelWarRoom) September 24, 2025
Houthi drone hits tourist center in southern Israel
Several people were reported injured on Wednesday evening when a Houthi drone struck a tourist center in the southern Israeli city of Eilat.
” Over 20 people were wounded by shrapnel on Wednesday after a drone from Yemen exploded in Eilat, days after another Houthi smashed into a hotel in the Red Sea resort city,” The Times of Israel reported. “Medics reported that among the injured were two men ages 60 and 26 listed in serious condition, along with a 30-year-old who was moderately hurt and 19 others with light wounds.”
The Israeli military was at the scene to assist the rescue work “IDF troops, alongside the Israel Police, were dispatched to the area of Eilat after receiving a report of a UAV attack,” the military said in a statement.
The troops are assisting in evacuating civilians from the area and providing initial medical care,” the IDF added.
Footage shows a Yemeni drone striking a luxury hotel in Eilat just minutes ago. Reports say the IDF attempted two interceptions and failed. One Israeli killed, 24 injured. pic.twitter.com/jJJAHEjlkK
— Jalyssa Dugrot (@jalyssaspeaking) September 24, 2025
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Please fix the typo in the headline.
An attack during Rosh Hashanah. The Hourthi’s are a special kind of evil and stupid.
Thank you for noticing.
That’s the sound of the left cheering 🤬
Fortunately for the Houthis, Israel does not go after civilian targets. Imagine the death toll if it was different. That is what fools will never distinguish.
The videos reminded me of Germany’s V-1 flying bomb. Completely indiscriminate.
Who are the Nazis here? Certainly not the side that warns civilians of impending military action so they can get to safety.
sure keep giving into the plo country demands and see what it gets you
wondering how many israelis think that they should replace Nets with a plo pro country agenda?
so if france etc are FOR plo power
then it would stand to reason that the same might be in fact supplying them with weapons ( via a 5th party of course) to hurt the israelis and their pro trump pro western ways in favor of the blmplo agenda
I’m canceling plans for a luxurious vacation in Yemen in light of this incident.
Just kidding. If you were only allowed to take your vacation if you agreed to go to Yemen, I’d work all 52 weeks.
Next few hours should be interesting over there. Israel doesn’t play around.
Maybe if Israel sent a drone to Paris and UK for each arab/persian drone/missile hitting Israel they might understand what is happening although I doubt it. They are evil and stupid.
Meanwhile fire up the jets and head downtown Houthi land for some target practice.
They’re trying to kill and wound people. Asymmetric warfare is not new or surprising. They win by being a thorn in the side and hard to kill off without incurring a huge public image problem. A standoff.
Not surprised you’re rooting for the antisemitic terrorists.
Thanks for hardinsplaining. That strategy is so complex and I totally didn’t get it until now. What would this board ever do without your IQ?
Why does Yemen still exist?
Interesting choice to combine 4 (or was it 5?) stories into one post. Not the choice I would have made, fwiw. For one thing, it makes for weird reactions on telegram, where I first see the headlines.
Speaking of which… Frequently the headlines are so similar in nature to LSM headlines that it boggles my mind; then often the bylines contradict or are of a significantly different topic or point than the headline.
Just my 2¢.