Well Israel says it has intercepted a surface-to-surface missile in the airspace near the city of Aat in southern Israel the Israeli Army says its defense systems detected the launch coming from the direction of the Red Sea and standing by to tell us more about that is Imran Khan in Tel Aviv Imran that's absolutely right this rocket coming into the tourist destination of elat uh was intercepted
It didn't hit anything but that almost doesn't matter the Houthis have actually um stepped up their attacks on Israeli targets they're focusing on two key areas the bubble map uh strip in the red straight sorry in the Red Sea uh where most of the uh ships destined for Israeli ports carrying goods coming to and the tourist destination of a lot the reason they're doing this is because they want to have an economic impact on Israel Insurance goes up if ships get
Attacked in the Red Sea that's a particular problem for Israel is that's one of the key routes into Israeli ports and that cost is passed on to the consumers in elat it's a campaign of almost harassment uh the more that they can send these rockets in even if they're intercepted it means the fewer people are likely uh to go there and spend money but uh the Israelis have been absolutely clear about this they don't blame you per se uh for these
Attacks they say these attacks are directed by the Iranians it's the Iranians behind all of these attacks and the Houthis are simply an extension of the Iranian military apparatus uh and you're going to tell us about a disagreement uh Imran between two senior ministers seemingly in the Netanyahu government that's absolutely right what we're hearing is the national security minister beer and the National Defense
Minister you have Galant are once again at loggerheads they have had disagreements in the past but this time the Prime Minister sorry the defense Minister Yov Galant has issued an arrest warrant for an Israeli settler in the occupied West Bank now my colleague Kimberly Hit will talk about the American reaction to that in just a second but this has angered um the national security minister um it beneath now it beneath is an openly far-right
Openly racist Minister uh towards the Palestinians but this time he's actually been blunt he said um the orders to arrest settlers since the beginning of the war it seems that Gant has forgotten and is confused about who is the enemy and who is the friend so he's really criticizing you Galant for issuing these orders remember there's only three of these orders that have been issued but for itar Ben uh this is his constituency Israeli settlers are the people that
Vote for him so this will be popular amongst his base now he's not a member of the Israeli War cabinet which is unusual in itself remember he's a national security minister but not part of the war cabinet so any opportunity he gets to attack um any member of the war cabinet including the Prime Minister he does take and it just goes to show you that the far right of Israel is still incredibly frustrated and openly critical of the war cabinet because they
Say they haven't gone far enough okay Imran thanks for the update Imran Khan there on television believe
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