Missile fired from Yemen hits central Israel

Occupied Palestine (Quds News Network)- A long-range ballistic missile fired from Yemen has hit central Israel, sparking fire, but no injuries were reported.

Air raid sirens blared in Tel Aviv and across central Israel, including the Ben Gurion international airport.

There were no reports of casualties or damage, and the airport authority said normal operations resumed shortly after.

“Following the sirens that sounded a short while ago in central Israel, a surface-to-surface missile was identified crossing into central Israel from the east and fell in an open area. No injuries were reported,” the Israeli military said.

Houthis’ Saba news agency said the Israeli defense system could not shoot down the Yemeni missile, which caused a fire.

“A Yemeni missile reached Israel after ’20 missiles failed to intercept’ it,” Nasruddin Amer, a Houthi media official, posted on X.

The group’s military spokesperson, Yahya Saree, announced that it had “targeted a military position of the Israeli enemy in the Jaffa area” with a “new hypersonic ballistic missile” that had managed to evade Israel’s air defense systems.

In response to the Israeli genocide war on Gaza, in what it says a campaign of solidarity with Palestinians, the Houthi group has been targeting Israeli-linked ships in the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden, the Bab al-Mandeb strait, since November.

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