ERBIL, Kurdistan Region of Iraq - After weeks of speculation about possible Houthi involvement in the US-Israeli war on Iran, the Yemeni group said Saturday it had carried out its first attack against Israel, according to the Houthi-run Saba news agency.

“The Yemeni Armed Forces, with the help of Allah Almighty and relying upon Allah, have carried out the first military operation using a barrage of ballistic missiles targeting sensitive Israeli military sites in southern occupied Palestine,” the group said in a statement.

The attack comes "in view of the continued military escalation, the targeting of infrastructure, and the perpetration of crimes and massacres against our brothers in Lebanon, Iran, Iraq, and Palestine," the Houthi statement continued, asserting that "the operation successfully achieved its objectives."

The Israeli military said a missile fired from Yemen was detected over the southern Negev on Saturday morning, adding that "aerial defense systems intercepted the threat."

No casulaties have been reported, according to Israeli state media.

Houthi military spokesperson Yahya Saree had warned late Friday that the group would join the war in the event of “involvement of any additional alliances with the United States and Israel against the Islamic Republic of Iran and the Axis of Jihad and Resistance.”

He added that they would not allow “the use of the Red Sea to carry out hostile operations by the United States and Israel against the Islamic Republic of Iran or any Muslim country.”

Yemen's Houthis on Friday laid out the factors that would draw them into the ongoing US-Israeli conflict with Iran on the latter's behalf, warning that any use of the Red Sea to carry out "hostile operations" would provoke a Houthi response pic.twitter.com/c3SJzPx59g

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Houthi participation in the conflict could further hamper global shipping lanes, which have already been disrupted by Iran's restriction of the Strait of Hormuz. The Houthis previously targeted ships in the Red Sea amid Israel's genocidal campaign in Gaza.