Israeli Defense Minister Yisrael Katz threatened, on Tuesday, the leaders of the Houthi group in Yemen with a fate similar to that of the leaders of the Palestinian Hamas movement and the Lebanese Hezbollah, who were assassinated by Tel Aviv months ago, amid the interception of a third missile within a week.

"Israel will deal with the Houthi leaders in Sanaa and other Yemeni areas, similar to how it dealt with (former Hamas political bureau chief Yahya) Sinwar in Gaza, (former Hamas political bureau chief Ismail) Haniyeh in Tehran, and (former Hezbollah secretary-general Hassan) Nasrallah in Beirut," the Israeli Broadcasting Corporation quoted Katz as saying.

The authority said that Katz made these statements while inspecting the Arrow system battery, which intercepted a missile launched from Yemen last night, without specifying the location.

Israel assassinated Sinwar, Haniyeh and Nasrallah in three attacks in different locations in Gaza, Tehran and Beirut.

Katz added: "We will not accept the continued firing of Houthi militias at the State of Israel. We will act against their infrastructure and against them to remove the threat."

The Israeli minister threatened the Houthi supporters, saying: "Anyone who sponsors the Houthis in Hodeidah or Sana'a will pay a heavy price," while the group did not immediately respond to these statements.

On Tuesday morning, the Israeli army announced that it had intercepted a missile launched from Yemen, the third in a week, before it penetrated Israeli airspace, while 20 people were injured while heading to shelters.

In recent weeks, Houthi missile and drone attacks on Tel Aviv have escalated, amid sharp criticism from the Israeli opposition and former military leaders of the army's failure to confront the Houthi attacks and the government's inability to stop this threat.

On Saturday, the Houthis bombed a military target in the city of Jaffa with a hypersonic missile that the Israeli army failed to intercept, wounding 20 Israelis, according to the Israeli Ambulance Service.

On Sunday, the Israeli Air Force said, in the results of an investigation, that the missile launched by the Houthis from Yemen fell in Tel Aviv "due to a malfunction in the interceptor missile, and not in the air defense system itself," according to the private Israeli Channel (12).

Al-Houthi also announced in a statement on Monday evening that it had attacked two military targets in Jaffa and Ashkelon in central and southern Israel with two drones.

It stressed that it "continues its military operations against the Israeli enemy in response to the Palestinian resistance in the Gaza Strip, and these operations will not stop until the (Israeli) aggression on Gaza stops and the siege is lifted."