Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is threatening retaliation after the Houthi rebels of Yemen targeted central Israel with a missile attack on Sunday.

Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said that Yemen's Houthi rebels will pay a "heavy price" after a ballistic missile struck central Israel for the first time on Sunday.

A missile was launched from Yemen into central Israel on Sunday morning, according to the Israeli military, in a rare instance of a missile penetrating so far into the country’s territory since its war in Gaza began.