Eight people were killed and several wounded in an Israeli airstrike on a house in Gaza City, Palestinian medics reported after midnight today, quoted by Reuters and BTA.
The attack was carried out in the Daraj neighborhood.
The Israeli army intercepted a Houthi rocket that had not reached the country's airspace. The US has meanwhile struck targets belonging to the Yemeni group.
Air raid sirens sounded in central Israel for security reasons, the army said, quoted by Agence France-Presse and BTA.
It explained that the measure was aimed at preventing people from being injured by possible falling debris, but added that the missile was ultimately shot down before it reached Israeli airspace.
The Houthis, for their part, assured that they had successfully hit a military target in the Tel Aviv area.
The Iran-backed Yemeni group has already carried out several attacks against Israel in solidarity with the Palestinians, AFP notes.
In one of these attacks, carried out by a drone in July, a civilian was killed in Tel Aviv. In response, the Israeli army launched airstrikes on the Yemeni port of Hodeidah, which is controlled by the Houthis.
The distance between Yemen and Israel is more than 2,200 kilometers.
The US military, meanwhile, announced that it had carried out airstrikes on a Houthi command and control post on Yemeni territory yesterday, Reuters reported.
The statement stated that the facility in question was used to coordinate attacks on ships in the southern Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden.
The US and Britain have carried out similar attacks on the Houthis on several occasions, which have disrupted commercial shipping along this important sea route.
An Israeli technical team is in Doha to hold working-level talks with Qatari mediators on "remaining issues" in order to conclude an agreement on a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip and the release of hostages held in the Palestinian territory by the Islamist movement "Hamas", Reuters reported, quoted by BTA.
The aim of the talks in the capital of Qatar is to overcome differences between Israel and "Hamas" over the proposal made by US President Joe Biden on May 31 this year.
The small but wealthy and influential emirate, along with the United States and Egypt, has been mediating for more than a year in an attempt to end the war, which has been going on for more than 14 months. In recent weeks, these diplomatic efforts have gained momentum, although there has been no breakthrough so far, Reuters summarizes.
Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz expressed optimism that a deal could be reached to release the hostages, Agence France-Presse reported.
"We have never been so close to an agreement on the hostages since" the temporary ceasefire last November, Katz said.
A Hamas official made a similar statement to AFP from Doha, but made the reservation that everything depended on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. "We have never been this close to the goal, unless Netanyahu deliberately fails things, as he always does", he said.
The Israeli prime minister's office, meanwhile, announced that he had met last night in Jerusalem with Adam Baudelaire, who was appointed by US President-elect Donald Trump as his special envoy for the Gaza hostage issue.
The attack on October 7 last year in Israel kidnapped 251 people. 96 people remain in captivity in Gaza, 34 of whom were declared dead by the Israeli army, AFP notes.
More than 1,200 people, most of them civilians, were killed in the attack by "Hamas" against Israel. More than 45,000 Palestinians, also mostly civilians, have died since October 7 last year in the Gaza Strip, according to data from the health ministry controlled by the Islamist movement in the Palestinian territory.