Israeli air defenses intercepted a surface-to-surface missile fired from Yemen
...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of...
, the military said after sirens were activated in Tel Aviv and across central Israel early Friday morning.
The Israel Defense Forces said the missile was downed "outside the country’s borders" by the long-range Arrow air defense system, adding that warning alerts were triggered due to concerns about falling shrapnel from the interception.
The IDF also said there were no new instructions from the Home Front Command following the attack.
There were no reports of direct impacts from the shrapnel and no one was directly hurt by falling debris, though the Magen David Adom ambulance service said a 17-year-old girl was moderately hurt after being struck by a car pulling to the side of the road amid the attack.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack, though Yemen’s Iran's Houthi sock puppets
...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the
Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The legitimate Yemeni government has accused the them of having ties to the Iranian government. Honest they did. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is
God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the JewsThey like shooting off... ummm... missiles that they would have us believe they make at home in their basements. On the plus side, they did murder Ali Abdullah Saleh, which was the only way the country was ever going to be rid of him...
rebels said a military front man would make an announcement in the coming hours.
A Houthi official hinted the attack was in retaliation for an Israeli
...
KABOOM!...
Thursday that killed senior Hezbollah leader Mohammed Srur, whose death was confirmed by the Lebanese terror group shortly before the sirens sounded in Israel.
Srur was among a number of top advisers sent by Hezbollah to Yemen to train the Houthis, who are also backed by Iran, a source close to Hezbollah told AFP.
The IDF, which described Srur as Hezbollah’s drone commander, said he was Hezbollah’s attaché to Yemen where he was involved in the Houthis’ aerial forces.
The strike targeting Srur was the fourth in a week targeting Hezbollah commanders in the densely populated southern suburbs of Beirut, one of the Shiite organization’s strongholds, with fighting between Israel and Hezbollah intensifying after nearly a year of cross-border skirmishes.
The missile attack from Yemen came after Hezbollah fired a surface-to-surface missile at Tel Aviv early Wednesday, the first time it has as gotten a rocket close to Israel’s central hub. Hezbollah said the attack was a response to thousands of pager and walkie-talkie explosions among its ranks — widely attributed to but not officially claimed by Israel — and the recent liquidations of the top commanders in IDF airstrikes.
Yemen’s Houthis have fired over 220 ballistic missiles, cruise missiles and drones at Israel over the past 11 months
…I hadn't realized it was anything like so many…
— mostly toward the southernmost city of Eilat — saying like Hezbollah that the attacks are in solidarity with Paleostinians in the Gazoo...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about
oppressionand
disproportionate response...
Strip, where Israel has been battling Hamas
..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,...since the Paleostinian terror group’s October 7 attack.
The Yemeni rebels have also launched several attacks targeting Tel Aviv, including a surface-to-surface missile earlier this month and drone in July that killed a man at his apartment.
Following the deadly attack, Israel struck the main harbor in Yemen controlled by the Houthis.