The Israeli military said Sunday that a long-range missile fired by Yemen’s Houthis struck central Israel.
The missile traveled over 1,200 miles from Yemen, demonstrating a significant long-range capability from the Houthis. The Israeli military initially said the missile landed in an uninhabited area and that it exploded in the air but was not destroyed by Israel’s air defense systems.
The missile sparked a fire near the Ben Gurion International Airport. No casualties were reported in the strike, but an Israeli official said nine people were injured as they were moving toward shelters after alarms sounded.
Houthi military spokesman Yahya Sarea said the Houthis, officially known as Ansar Allah, fired a “new hypersonic missile” that traveled to central Israel in less than 12 minutes.
The Israeli military denied that the missile was hypersonic and said it’s currently examining the debris to determine its type and capability. The military insisted that none of its adversaries, including Iran, possess hypersonic missiles.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned that Yemen would pay a “heavy price” for the missile attack. In July, a Houthi drone hit Tel Aviv, killing one civilian, and Israel responded by launching major airstrikes on the Yemeni port of Hodeidah, which killed seven civilians and caused $20 million worth of damage to fuel infrastructure.
Last year, the Houthis began targeting Israeli-linked shipping with drone and missile attacks in response to the Israeli onslaught in Gaza. The US launched a new bombing campaign against the Houthis back in January and continues to bomb Yemen frequently. But the US strikes have only escalated the situation and have done nothing to deter the Houthis, who have said they will stop if there’s a ceasefire in Gaza.
The explosion in the air is a sheer lie…! The hypersonic missile hit its target alright….. It was a test, but the next one would drop in Tel Aviv…! It was not detected by any Israeli or US air defense systems…!
Plenty of Israeli videos uploaded to social media that indicated the missile hit a significant target near Jaffa.
Some suggested missile hit a natural gas processing facility. Others suggested missile hit a major power plant. TBD.
Likud should sue for peace, before their ruin more Israeli lives. Likud is Israelis own worst enemy.
What exploded in the air was probably a Patriot or Iron Dome interceptor, if a fire was started on the ground it's likely they missed. The missile was almost certainly not hypersonic unless it was gifted by China or Russia (or possibly Iran), Yemen doesn't have the facilities to fabricate the ablative sheath necessary to keep a hypersonic missile from burning up on reentry. Even the US hasn't managed to make it work yet.
"Even the US hasn't managed to make it work yet" That is simply not true.
Since when? They’ve never had a successful test of a hypersonic missile yet, much less started production of such.
The explosion in the air is a sheer lie…! The hypersonic missile hit its target alright….. It was a test, but the next one would drop in Tel Aviv…! It was not detected by any Israeli or US air defense systems…!
Most US/Israeli adversaries are civilized people who target strategic facilities rather than innocent civilians.
That makes US/Israel true unlabeled terrorists…!
Were you sleeping during Oct 7? Are so young that you don't remember the suicide bombers hitting buses in Tel Aviv? 3000 innocent people died in the world trade center attack.
Israel and the West (U>SA) are still counting on escalation dominance, instead of diplomacy to enforce/create peace. Modern technology has made all the players capable of inflicting precise and serious damage.
It is either going to end up with nuclear weapons or negotiation.
Nuclear weapons are almost 100 year-old tech. The preparatory brainwashing on this subject is for milking the budggt.
So true. So is McCarthyism.
Modern technology has made all the players capable of inflicting precise and serious damage.
And cheap, a GPS chiplet which can be added to a board to control a cell phone or missile costs $0.25 in lots of under 1000. A Raspberry Pi, more powerful than a 1990s supercomputer, costs even less. Actuators for hobbyist robots can be repurposed to move control surfaces and fuel valves. Homebrew rocket clubs run on a shoestring have grazed the edge of space. It's an interesting time for a superpower.
More worrying is that bioweapons no longer require the resources of a national government. In the Clinton years it cost billions of dollars and took the labor of thousands of people in the leading laboratories of the world several years to decipher the genome of a single person. Today the tech gets your cheek swab from FedEx, puts it in the analyzer, and in the morning emails you the results. Gene splicing equipment which was bleeding edge a decade ago can be bought on eBay for the cost of a good used car, there are free online tools allowing you to design a gene, and a few billion copies of your design can arrive in the mail a couple of weeks later for a couple hundred dollars. If some PETA trust fund brat decides that the world would be better off with several billion fewer people it's entirely within their means.
What could go wrong?
Oops. Forgot to bring a few plumbers and electricians.
A bit more logic is required, by all those involved!
The Israelis brought down the missile with the same bullet that's been ricocheting around since it killed that American.
Israel is not only nice, it's also funny. That missile was "almost nothing" and hit "almost nothing," but whoever fired it will pay a 'heavy price!?'
I discuss the issue of whether Yemen or Iran have "hypersonic weapons" (tl;dr technically they don't – but they're getting there) in my latest Substack on how the coming Middle East war is inevitable:
https://richardstevenhack.substack.com/p/armageddon-in-the-middle-east-part-a9a
And here is another must-view w/ Alastair Crooke, the one man who "gets it" about the Middle East conflict. Important news that supports my latest Substack. Alastair Crooke : Israel and Ukraine Soon to Explode?
It is OK for Israel to bomb Gaza, West Bank, Iran, Syria, but boy do not dare to bomb Israel or there will be a "heavy price". Funny as hell.
It's been the same story since 1948, to even threaten israel is to risk being killed by these mass murderers.
And mainly times there is a heavy price to pay. Kill an Israeli and Israel kills back by 10 times.
That sends a message to Israel. Eventually, messages are going to be sent to the U.S.A. Would it not be a lot better for Genocide Joe to just to stop this mess peacefully, 'cause most Americans really are not too excited about where this is all going.
And how will Joe magically stop this mess? Sinwar plans to keep fighting until he wins, regardless of the cost.
Unlike Iran, Israel's threat is real. It is time to hit the Yemen port again and this time do some serious damage. Not just burn some oil tanks.