30 Israelis Injured as Yemeni Supersonic Missile Strikes Tel Aviv

About 30 Israeli settlers were injured by a supersonic missile fired from Yemen that landed in Tel Aviv, early Saturday morning.

Israel’s Hebrew Radio said 30 Israelis were injured by a rocket fired from Yemen on Tel Aviv, while dozens panicked as they fled to underground shelters.

The missile is being described as a direct hit which the Israeli air defences such as David’s Sling and the Cardboard Dome failed to intercept as admitted by the Israeli army in much commentary on the  social media

Israeli army spokesman Avichay Adraee confirmed that attempts  failed to stop the incoming ballistic missile and the impact activated the alarm bells across central Israel.

Meanwhile the Israeli Haaretz newspaper reported that ambulance teams transferred more than 20 injured settlers to the Wolfson and Ichilov hospitals after a rocket from Yemen fell in Tel Aviv as reported in Quds Press.

The Israeli police confirmed as well that “damage” occurred to a number of homes as a result of the rocket explosion in the Bnei Brak area to the east of Tel Aviv.

Houthi military spokesperson Yahya Saree announced, in a statement, that their fighters carried out “a military operation targeting a military site of the Israeli enemy in the occupied Jaffa area with a hypersonic ballistic missile.”

The announcement was made after the Houthis struck central and southern Israel with multiple drones on Friday and Thursday in response to the Israeli airstrikes on Sana’a and Al Hudaydah in Yemen.

Since the war on Gaza was launched soon after 7 October, 2023, the Houthis struck Israel with 200 missiles and more than 170 explosive drones.

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Netanyahu in Court on Corruption Trial

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu appeared in court in Tel Aviv for the 4th time, Wednesday, to testify in his corruption trial. 

Netanyahu’s hearing session was scheduled for Tuesday but was canceled after he embarked on a secret visit to Mount Hermon (Jabal al-Sheikh) in Syria’s demilitarized zone in the occupied Golan Heights.

According to the Israeli public broadcaster KAN, Netanyahu’s session on Wednesday is expected to focus on a case known as “4000” in which the prime minister is accused of providing regulatory favors to Shaul Elovitch, then-owner of Bezeq Telecom Company and the Walla news site, in exchange for favorable coverage for him and his wife.

Netanyahu, the first sitting Israeli leader to take the stand as a criminal defendant in the country’s history, faces accusations of bribery, fraud, and breach of trust, which he denies according to Anadolu.

Netanyahu also faces charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity, with the International Criminal Court (ICC) issuing arrest warrants for him and former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant in November over atrocities in Gaza.  

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Houthi Ballistic Missile Lands in Tel Aviv as Israelis Flock to Shelters

The Yemeni Houthi group announced, Monday, its forces attacked a military target in the Jaffa (Tel Aviv) area in central Israel with a hypersonic ballistic missile.

News of the attack is trending on the social media with many Israelis going back to underground bunkers for safety as the Kan, the Israeli Broadcasting Authority confirmed the missile launch that landed in the Tel Aviv area.

The launch of the missile was made in a televised statement read by the group’s military spokesman Yahya Saree, which said the group’s missile force “targeted a military target of the Israeli enemy in the occupied Jaffa area (Tel Aviv) with a hypersonic ballistic missile of the Palestine 2 type.”

The Houthi spokesman added that “the operation achieved its goals successfully,” without providing further details.

Saree vowed that the group’s forces “will continue to carry out their military operations and strike all targets belonging to the Israeli enemy in the occupied territories, and these operations will not stop until the aggression on Gaza stops and the siege on the Strip is lifted.”

He continued: “Our forces, along with all the sons of the struggling Yemeni people, are ready to confront any Israeli-American aggression targeting Yemen, with more qualitative and effective military operations.”

Israel announced earlier on Monday it had intercepted a drone and a missile launched from Yemen.

In turn, the Israeli ambulance announced in a statement, Monday, five people were injured while heading to shelters in Tel Aviv and other cities and regions in the center of the country “after a missile was fired from Yemen.”

“In solidarity with the Gaza Strip,” which has been subjected to Israeli genocide with American support since 7 October, 2023, the Houthis have been targeting Israeli or related cargo ships in the Red Sea, the Arabian Sea, and the Indian Ocean with missiles and drones, and carrying out missile and drone attacks on Israel, including operations targeting Tel Aviv.

Since the beginning of 2024, a US-led coalition has been launching raids that it says target “Houthi sites” in various areas of Yemen, in response to its naval attacks, which has been met with a response from the group from time to time.

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Israel to Close its Embassy in Ireland

Relations between Ireland and Israel over Palestine and Gaza reached an all-time low that Tel Aviv announced, Sunday, it will close down its Embassy in Dublin.

Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar said Israel is closing its embassy in Ireland in light of what he calls “the extreme anti-Israel policies pursued by the Irish government.”

Sa’ar implied the Israeli decision was expected because a few months ago Israel recalled its ambassador to Dublin Dana Erlich after Ireland’s unilateral decision to recognize a Palestinian state.

 Recently Ireland announced its support for South Africa’s legal action in the International Court of Justice, accusing Israel of committing genocide.

Irish Prime Minister Simon Harris said Israel’s decision to close its embassy in Dublin was “deeply regrettable.”

On 28 May, Ireland announced its official recognition of the Palestinian state, and the Dublin government agreed to establish full diplomatic relations, in defiance of Israel, which denounced the plan.

As well last November, Harris said that Dublin would be prepared to arrest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu if he set foot in Ireland following an arrest warrant issued by the International Criminal Court.

The diplomatic row has been escalating between the two countries but Ireland has not recalled its ambassador from Tel Aviv.

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Syria on Deluge For Arab ‘Regime Change’

In less than a week, the Bashar al-Assad regime and that of this family fell, an era that lasted for more than half a century came to an end.

There is no room here to talk about that era, but the end was expected for a long time, as dictatorial regimes or family-based dynasties must end, just as happened to Hosni Mubarak, Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, Ali Abdullah Saleh and others.

Hours before the fall of Al Assad, I called on Arab rulers to reconcile with their people before the flood comes rushing through. And now the flood has begun to rage from Damascus, and I believe, it will not stop.

It will inevitably sweep away other rulers of this era who accepted humiliation, disgrace, betrayal and throwing themselves into the arms of Tel Aviv, Washington and other capitals of crime.

What happened recently in Syria will be a prelude to the other Arab peoples. I feel very optimistic, and I believe we are facing radical changes that will affect the Arab world, and I do not know who will be the next ruler to be swept away by this deluge?

Thanks to the Al-Aqsa flood that exposed, revealed and disgraced many of the treasonous and collaborating regimes in our Arab world.

This flood will be followed by a flood of another kind, which will sweep away with it every slacker, and everyone who betrayed and conspired against Palestine, its resistance and its people, and threw himself into the arms of the criminal West, and ignored what is happening in Gaza, which will be, God willing, the main reason for uprooting many of the apostate Zionist regimes.

The majority of the Arab peoples are now yearning for change, and even salvation from injustice and oppression, and I do not believe that the Arab situation will continue in this way, and the Syrian situation will constitute an important factor for the peoples to pounce and revolt against rulers who are certainly not of the Arab caliber, and I am certain that this will not last long.

Many of the Arab rulers are feeling their heads today, and perhaps they are working on reconsidering their calculations if they can, and they realize that when the people have their say, the end of the regime will be inevitable.

So will these people learn from what happened recently in Damascus? The wise man is is the one who learns from others. Who will be the next ruler who will follow Mr. Al Assad?

Whoever has the answer, let him tell us, and he will have a great prize presented by the poor servant who wrote this article, which is a kiss on his forehead, and kisses on the foreheads of all the free revolutionaries of the nation, and at the forefront of the heroic revolutionaries of Gaza.

This article was written by Palestinian writer Dr Mohammad Abu Baker for Al Rai Al Youm in Arabic and reprinted in www.crossfirearabia.com

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