An Israeli was killed and eight others were injured, at dawn on Friday, as a result of a drone explosion in downtown Tel Aviv.

The Israeli Broadcasting Corporation said that a car bomb exploded at exactly 3:15 a.m. today in central Tel Aviv, hundreds of meters away from the United States Embassy, without activating the sirens.

It added that eight people injured by shrapnel were evacuated to receive treatment, while the body of a man was found killed in a side street.

In this context, the official spokesman for the Houthi group said, “We carried out, through the Jaffa march, a qualitative operation in Tel Aviv.”

He declared that the occupied Jaffa area was unsafe, according to him.