Houthi missile hits Tel Aviv, causes casualties

Israeli forces conducted "precise strikes on Houthi military targets in Yemen," the Israel Defense Forces said in a statement early Thursday morning local time. The strikes targeted "ports and energy infrastructure in Sanaa," the IDF said.

IDF spokesman Daniel Hagari said the Houthis have been conducting missile and drone strikes on Israel over the past 14 months and referred to the missile fired towards Israel from Yemen on Wednesday evening. Israeli forces intercepted the missile, the IDF said.

"The Houthis have been carrying out attacks against Israel in violation of international law and the Houthi regime is a threat to peace and security in the region," Hagari said.

He continued, "Who is behind the Houthis? Iran. The regime in Iran funds, arms and directs the Houthis' terror activities."

"As we have shown against other enemies in other arenas, we will continue to act against anyone in the Middle East that threatens the state of Israel and we will defend the people of Israel," Hagari said.

-ABC News' Dana Savir and Ellie Kaufman

The Israel Defense Forces said Wednesday that it intercepted a missile launched from Yemen, with no reported casualties.

"Rocket and missile sirens were sounded following the possibility of falling debris from the interception," the IDF said in a statement.

The IDF later said that debris damaged a school in Ramat Efal a suburb of Tel Aviv.

-ABC News' Becky Perlow, Dana Savir and Ellie Kaufman

In response to a question about the suspected mass graves being uncovered in Syria, State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller said Tuesday that the U.S. has evidence of other atrocities that occurred under toppled President Bashar Assad's regime that is not currently available to the public.

"When you look at the evidence that is coming out of Syria in the now 10 days since the Assad regime fell, it continues to shock the conscience," he said.

"And I'm referring not just to the mass graves that have been uncovered, but information that we have been gathering inside the United States government, including information that's not yet publicly known," Miller added.

"We just continue to see more and more evidence pile up of how brutal they were in mistreating their own people, in murdering and torturing their own people," Miller said.

-ABC News' Shannon K. Kingston

State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller told reporters Tuesday that "fairly intense diplomatic discussions" aimed at staving off renewed fighting between Turkey plus its allied militias and the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces in northern Syria were ongoing.

"We continue to engage with Turkey about the situation in northern Syria," Miller said. "As you know, we worked out a ceasefire for the area around Manbij. That ceasefire has been holding. It had expired. It has been extended until the end of this week, and we continue to engage with the SDF, with Turkey about a path forward," he said.

Although the U.S. is allied with the SDF, Miller described Turkey's concern about the terror threat posed by the Kurdistan Workers' Party -- a U.S.-designated terror group which Turkey claims is directly linked to the SDF -- as "very legitimate."

-ABC News' Shannon K. Kingston