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Nine Israelis were injured, early Wednesday morning, in a rush to the underground shelters in Tel Aviv to beat a Houthis missile fired all the way from Yemen, a distance of over 2000 kilometers, and of which the Israeli army claimed to have intercepted.
The official Israeli Broadcasting Authority (KAN) stated that: “For the second time in two days, air defenses intercepted a ballistic missile from Yemen at dawn today before it penetrated airspace.”
It added: Sirens sounded in several villages in the greater Tel Aviv area and the inner plain, and nine people were injured after stumbling while running to the underground shelters according to the Anadolu news agency.
It revealed that on the political level, the current Israeli government is considering launching a new attack against Yemen. This would be the fourth onslaught since the start of the Israeli war of extermination on the people of Gaza soon after 7 October, 2023.
KAN added: The Israeli army has begun formulating plans for an expected set of airstrikes on Yemen.
For its part, the Israeli army claimed in a statement that “a missile fired from Yemen was intercepted before it penetrated Israeli airspace. Alarms were activated in central Israel for fear of falling shrapnel from the interception operation.”
In recent weeks, Houthi missile and drone attacks on Tel Aviv have escalated, amid sharp criticism from the Israeli opposition and former military leaders for the army’s failure to confront the Houthi attacks and the government’s inability to stop this threat.
On Saturday, the Houthis bombed a military target in the city of Jaffa with a hypersonic missile that the Israeli army failed to intercept, wounding 20 Israelis with various injuries, according to the Israeli Ambulance Authority.
On Sunday, the Israeli Air Force said, in the results of an investigation, that the missile launched by the Houthis from Yemen fell in Tel Aviv “due to a malfunction in the interceptor missile, not in the air defense system itself,” according to private Israeli Channel (no. 12).
The Houthis also announced in a statement, Monday evening, they attacked two military targets in Jaffa and Ashkelon in central and southern Israel with two drones, stressing they will “continue their military operations against the Israeli enemy in response to the Palestinian resistance in the Gaza Strip, and these operations will not stop until the (Israeli) aggression on Gaza stops and the siege on it is lifted.”
In “solidarity with Gaza” in the face of the ongoing Israeli genocidal war in the Strip since 7 October, 2023, which has led to the killing and wounding of more than 153,000 Palestinians, the Houthi group began targeting cargo ships linked to Israel in the Red Sea with missiles and drones since November of the same year.
