Israeli security officials said Saturday that Tel Aviv is preparing to launch another attack in Yemen, involving other countries, to create a "full mobilization" that will increase the attack on the Houthis.

The Israeli Broadcasting Corporation quoted an Israeli source as saying, "We conveyed a message to the Americans that we expect an increase in their attacks on the Houthis," along with a message to the international coalition "emphasizing that the Houthi attacks threaten the stability of the region."

For its part, the Israel Hayom newspaper quoted a political source as saying that the conflict with the Houthis is escalating, saying, "Our goal is to fully mobilize Washington to increase the attack on the Houthis."

This comes after an Israeli Air Force investigation revealed that several failed attempts were made to intercept the ballistic missile that was launched on Saturday from Yemen and fell in a Tel Aviv stadium, leaving 30 people injured and dozens of apartments damaged in the area.

In a preliminary investigation, the Israeli Air Force said that after spotting the ballistic missile, a state of alert was activated in the central region and "interceptor missiles were fired in the upper layer of the atmosphere that missed the target outside the borders of Israel."

"Later, interceptor missiles were fired at the missile, this time in the lower atmosphere, which also missed the target," he continued.

According to the Israeli Broadcasting Authority, Israel's air defense system operates in layers and is called a "multi-layered defense system."

She pointed out that in the upper layer above the atmosphere, the Arrow 2 and Arrow 3 arrays operate, in the middle layer the David's Sling array operates, while in the lower layer the Iron Dome array operates.

The Israeli Army Radio also published a video clip showing attempts to intercept the missile, while the Houthi group claimed responsibility for launching the missile towards central Israel.

Ansar Allah (Houthis) military spokesman Yahya Saree said the group had bombed a military target in the occupied city of Jaffa with a hypersonic ballistic missile, in response to the Israeli bombing of Yemen and the ongoing massacres in the Gaza Strip.

On Thursday morning, Israel launched a series of raids on the Yemeni capital, Sanaa, and the Al Hudaydah Governorate, which overlooks the Red Sea in the west of the country.

The Houthi government's Ministry of Transport announced that the port of Hodeidah "continues to operate normally" despite these attacks, while the head of the Red Sea Ports Corporation (under Houthi control) reviewed the extent of the damage to the port as a result of the Israeli raids.

Overall, this is the third Israeli attack on Yemen since the beginning of the ongoing “war of extermination” on Gaza. The first was last July, and the second was last September, targeting the port of Hodeidah and fuel facilities at the city’s power plant.

In "solidarity with Gaza", which has been subjected to an Israeli war since October 7, 2023, the Houthi group said that since November of the same year, it had begun targeting Israeli or Israeli-linked cargo ships in the Red Sea with missiles and drones.

Since the beginning of this year, Washington and London have also begun launching air strikes and missile attacks on Houthi sites, which the group responded to by announcing that it considers all American and British ships to be military targets.