Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi group said they carried out a drone attack on southern Israel on Tuesday, confirming an earlier report by the Israeli military. “The UAV (drone) force of the Yemeni Armed Forces carried out a specific military operation targeting the industrial zone of the Israeli enemy in the Ashkelon region,” a Houthi military statement said. Israel’s military said the drone “fell in an open area” of Ashkelon, just north of the Gaza Strip where the brutal war on the Gaza Strip has been raging for more than a year. The Houthis claimed the attack “was carried out with a number of dro…