UAE intercepts Houthi missile as Israeli president visits

The United Arab Emirates said it had intercepted a ballistic missile fired from Yemen as the Gulf state hosted Isaac Herzog on the first-ever visit to the country by an Israeli president.

The Emirati defence ministry said on Monday that the missile was intercepted and destroyed, adding that its debris fell on an uninhabited area. It did not say whether the missile was targeting the UAE’s capital Abu Dhabi or Dubai, the Middle East’s business and tourism hub.

The UAE civil aviation authority said air traffic in the Gulf country was continuing as usual, and all flight operations were operating normally despite the attack, the state news agency (WAM) reported.