) — A missile launched by Yemen-based Houthis targeted Tel Aviv-Jaffa, injuring 16 people, after Israeli countermeasures failed to stop it early Saturday morning.

“The missile hit its target accurately, and the defence and interception systems failed to intercept it,” Houthi officials stated in a statement released Saturday morning. The Houthis claimed to have hit a military target, but the Israeli military stated it fell in a public park early in the morning, according to the BBC. The Israel Defence Forces reported that a single missile landed in the Tel Aviv-Jaffa area after the IDF failed to intercept it and blasted sirens to warn citizens of the impending missile. A photograph of the missile’s crash site revealed a small crater in the earth with playground equipment around.

The resultant explosion damaged glass in surrounding buildings, causing minor casualties. The rocket attack came shortly after an Israeli aircraft attacked a house in northern Gaza on Friday night, killing numerous people, including children. The Hamas-run Gaza Health Ministry confirmed 25 deaths on Friday as a result of Israeli airstrikes in Gaza. The Health Ministry reported that twelve people perished when a house in Jabaliya, northern Gaza, was attacked, the majority of whom were children and one women. On Thursday, Israel hit Yemen’s capital city of Sanaa and the port city of Hodeidah with an airstrike, killing nine people.

That airstrike occurred after Israel intercepted a missile launched by the Houthis against Israel. On Thursday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu acknowledged military operations against Houthi targets in Yemen. “We did this in response to repeated Houthi attacks against civilian targets in Israel,” Mr. Netanyahu stated. “Last night they attacked a school in Ramat Gan.” Following the apparent collapse of Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Assad government in Syria, Netanyahu said the Houthis are nearly the “last arm of Iran’s axis of evil” and “are attacking the entire world” by targeting international shipping and commercial waterways.