The Israeli occupation army said – on Monday evening – that it intercepted two missiles launched from Yemen before they entered Israel’s airspace, while sirens sounded in dozens of towns in the greater Tel Aviv area.
Israeli Army Radio reported that two missiles were intercepted launched from Yemen, one after it crossed Israeli airspace and the other before entering.
But the Israeli Broadcasting Corporation published a video clip of what it said were fragments of the ballistic missile that was launched from Yemen after it fell in the city of Beit Shemesh in the Jerusalem area.
Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper said that landing and take-off operations at Ben Gurion International Airport in Tel Aviv were temporarily suspended due to the missile launch from Yemen.
In the same context, the Deputy Chairman of the Media Authority of the Ansar Allah group, Nasr al-Din Amer, refuted the Israeli story and confirmed that the rockets launched by the group “reached the skies of occupied Palestine without objection.” Amer stressed that “the group’s operations are continuing and escalating until the aggression against Gaza stops,” stressing that “The enemy’s depth and internal front will not secure us unless Gaza is secure.”
In turn, Major General Muhammad Al-Sammadi told Al-Jazeera that “the arrival of the missiles over Israel is a success for Yemen and a failure for Israel and the Iron Dome system.”
Injuries
For its part, Magen David Adom reported two casualties, one of them a traffic accident, after the panic that struck the Israelis as a result of the two missiles being fired from Yemen.
Last Saturday, the Houthi group bombed the Nevatim air base in the Negev region in southern Israel with a Palestine 2 hypersonic ballistic missile, which “successfully achieved its goal,” according to what the group said.
The group stated that it carried out 13 military operations against Israel in support of Gaza from December 19 until last Saturday.
On the other hand, since the beginning of the war of extermination in Gaza, Israel has launched 4 air attacks on targets in Yemen, the last of which was last Thursday evening on Sanaa International Airport and the ports of Hodeidah in the west of the country, resulting in deaths and injuries, as well as material losses.
In solidarity with Gaza in the face of the ongoing Israeli genocidal war on the Strip, the Houthi group has begun since November 2023 targeting Israeli cargo ships or those linked to them in the Red Sea with missiles and drones, in addition to launching attacks on targets inside Israel.