Yemen’s Houthi rebels claim they have shot down another American MQ-9 Reaper drone flying over the country, even as the U.S. kept up its campaign of intense airstrikes targeting the group.

Israel’s military intercepted a missile launched by Yemen’s Houthi rebels early Thursday, the second to target Israel since the collapse of the Gaza ceasefire, as the United States’ intensifies airstrikes against the Iran-backed militant group.

Suspected U.S. airstrikes have battered rebel-controlled areas of Yemen, with the Houthis saying one strike killed at least four people near the Red Sea port city of Hodeida

Whether we’re going to make the Houthis cry for mercy anytime soon is extremely unlikely,” one expert on Yemen said.

President Trump said Monday that U.S. attacks on the Iran-backed Houthis could continue unless the Yemen-based terrorist group stops attacking U.S. ships.

President Donald Trump put both Iran and its proxy, the Houthi terrorists in Yemen, on notice Monday that "real pain is yet to come" if they continue to attack U.S. ships and otherwise threaten freedom of navigation around the Red Sea.