Air defenses intercepted a ballistic missile launched at Israel 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...
that triggered sirens across central Israel late Monday night, the military said, in the seventh such nighttime attack in less than two weeks.
The missile was intercepted before it crossed into Israeli airspace, the military said, and sirens sounded across the center of the country shortly after 11:00 p.m. due to protocol for fear of falling debris.
There was no major damage as a result of the missile debris, although a large fragment crashed in the Ramat Beit Shemesh Alef neighborhood of Beit Shemesh, close to Jerusalem.
The Magen David Adom ambulance service said that it did not receive any reports of injuries directly caused by the missile launched from Yemen, although a number of people were being treated for acute anxiety or for minor injuries sustained while running to bomb shelters.
The missile launch also caused brief interruptions at Ben Gurion Airport, the Ynet news site reported, with arrivals and departures briefly halted due to fears of falling debris.
The 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...
s in Yemen later took responsibility for the missile launch, and a top leader of the Iran-backed group vowed that similar attacks would be forthcoming.
"The pounding of the entity (Israel) continues and the support to 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 a rusty 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...
continues," Mohammed Ali al-Houthi, the head of the Houthis’ supreme revolutionary committee, said in a post on X after the Israeli military announced the missile interception.
The launch came shortly after Houthi-controlled media in Yemen reported that a US-led coalition had struck targets in the At Tuhayat District, south of Hodeida.
The Houthis, a rebel group at the center of Yemen’s civil war that has dedicated itself to the destruction of Israel and Jews, have launched more than 200 missiles and 170 drones at Israel in the past year, according to the Israel Defense Forces. The vast majority did not reach Israel or were intercepted by the military or Israel’s allies in the region.
Rocket and drone alert sirens triggered by attacks from Yemen have sent millions of Israelis running for shelter in the middle of the night almost every night for the past 12 days. In the past month, the group has fired 11 ballistic missiles and at least nine drones at Israel.
On Monday, UN Ambassador Danny Danon issued what he called a final warning to the group, and cautioned that they risked the same "miserable fate" as fellow Iranian allies Hamas
..a regional Iranian catspaw,..., Hezbollah and the fallen regime of Syria’s Bashir
Pencilneckal-Assad
The Scourge of Hama...
if they persisted.
"Israel will defend its people," Danon told news hounds before the meeting. "If 2,000 kilometers (1,243 miles) is not enough to separate our children from the terror, let me assure you, it will not be enough to protect their terror from our strengths."