A drone launched by Yemeni rebels crashes at an Israeli airport, injuring one person.

A drone launched by Yemen's Houthi rebels on Sunday crashed at an airport in southern Israel , injuring one man, the Israeli Red Cross reported.

A spokesperson for Israel's airport authority said the drone "hit the arrivals hall" at Ramon Airport, near the Jordanian border, and that operations at the airport are suspended.

Israel announced on Sunday that its territory was attacked by four drones launched by Houthi rebels from Yemen and by two projectiles fired from the Gaza Strip by the armed movement Islamic Jihad.

The Israeli military initially said it had intercepted three drones "coming from Yemen" and shot down two before they entered its airspace, but did not specify what happened to the third aircraft.

He later confirmed that a fourth drone "crashed in the Ramon Airport area."

In a press release, Magen David Adom confirmed that a man was injured at the airport and is receiving medical attention.

"Paramedics are providing medical treatment (...) to a 63-year-old man, in mild condition, fully conscious, with shrapnel wounds to his extremities," the emergency service reported.

The Houthi rebels, who control large swathes of Yemeni territory, vowed to avenge the killing of their prime minister in an Israeli airstrike in August in Sanaa, Yemen's capital.

Its leader, Abdul Malik Al Huthi, said he would continue "targeting Israel with missiles and drones" and would escalate attacks against the Hebrew state, in solidarity with the Palestinians.

Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz countered that his country is going to inflict the biblical "ten plagues" on the Houthis following their continued attacks on his country.

In another incident reported Sunday, the Israeli military said two projectiles were fired from the Gaza Strip toward Netivot in the south of the country and toward communities near Gaza in that area, but one was intercepted and the other landed in a vacant lot.

The armed wing of Islamic Jihad, a Hamas-allied movement in Gaza, claimed responsibility for the launches.

This is the first time in several months that projectiles fired from the Gaza Strip have threatened Netivot, a town of about 50,000 people located about 10 kilometers from the Palestinian territory.

In the past 48 hours, the Israeli army, which is engaged in a major offensive in the Gaza Strip, destroyed two high-rise buildings in the center of Gaza City and urged residents to evacuate south.

The war erupted after the unprecedented attack by the armed Islamist movement Hamas on Israeli soil on October 7, 2023.

The Israeli offensive has left at least 64,300 dead in Gaza, mostly women and children, according to the Hamas-controlled Gaza Health Ministry, whose figures are considered reliable by the UN.