Houthis launch missile attack on Israel
Newshour
BBC
4.2 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 28 March 2026
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Yemen's Iran-backed Houthi movement have launched a missile strike on Israel for first time since the war began.
The group says it fired a barrage of ballistic missiles "targeting sensitive Israeli military sites", after Israel says it intercepted a missile from Yemen. The intervention comes as Israel continues bombing Lebanon, aiming for the pro-Iranian Hezbollah, but catching many other Lebanese in its wake.
Also in the programme: We'll hear from a mother and son forced apart for years by the state because she was unmarried; Nepal's former prime minister under arrest just a day after the new government took power; and a former Haitian culture minister turned documentary maker on the prescience of George Orwell.
(Photo shows a Houthi soldier operating a machine gun on a pickup truck in Sanaa, Yemen on 27 March 2026. Credit: Yahya Arhab/EPA)
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| 0:15.7 | I'm Sean Lay. |
| 0:17.0 | Later on this edition, quitting the job she loved at NASA |
| 0:20.2 | because she thinks the president |
| 0:21.9 | is hollowing out publicly funded science in the US. |
| 0:25.2 | My day-to-day work was thrown into chaos. The fact that every day seemed to bring with |
| 0:33.0 | it some fresh problem, whether it was a funding problem, whether it was submitting a grant and not |
| 0:38.6 | knowing whether it was going to be reviewed, whether in the initial kind of doge purges |
| 0:44.3 | were our job safer. That interview with Dr. Kate Marvel a little later on this edition |
| 0:49.5 | of Newsauer. It's not the damage the Houthis have done if, as they claim Saturday they have |
| 0:56.2 | launched their first missile strike against Israel and the current war that matters most. It's what |
| 1:01.9 | they might do next and how it could gravely complicate global supply chains, including for oil. |
| 1:08.7 | Yaya Sari, Houthi military spokesman, |
| 1:11.5 | delivered this statement on Yemeni television. |
| 1:16.6 | This operation coincided with the heroic operations |
| 1:20.2 | carried out by our Mujahideen brothers in Iran and Hezbollah in Lebanon. |
| 1:25.0 | By the grace of Allah Almighty, the operation successfully achieved its objectives. |
| 1:31.3 | Well, you may recall that during the Gaza War, the Houthi movement, which controls most |
| 1:36.8 | of northern Yemen, attacked commercial shipping on the Red Sea. Babel Mandep is a choke point |
| 1:43.1 | connecting the Red Sea to the Gulf of Aden and on into the |
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