The Israel Defense Forces said late Thursday afternoon it had shot down two drones launched from Yemen earlier in the day. No air-raid sirens were activated, in keeping with policy.

In a subsequent statement, the military said that, over the past week, the Air Force intercepted five unmanned aerial vehicles and two surface-to-surface missiles fired at the Jewish state by the Iran-backed terrorists.

It added that in recent months, dozens of aerial attacks with UAVs and missiles launched by the Houthis were successfully downed in coordination between various IAF aerial defense systems.

The statement emphasized that the Jewish state’s armed forces would continue working to “remove any aerial threat over the country’s skies and protect the citizens and residents of the State of Israel.”

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