Yemen’s Houthis on Tuesday fired a missile toward Israel in response to Israel’s massive bombardment in Gaza, demonstrating that the group, officially known as Ansar Allah, won’t be deterred by US airstrikes.
Houthi military spokesman Yahya Saree said the missile targeted the Nevatim airbase in Israel’s Negev desert. Sirens sounded in multiple towns and villages in southern Israel, but the Israeli military said its air defenses intercepted the missile before it entered Israeli airspace.
“Yemen, its leadership, people, and army, will not stand idly by while witnessing all these massacres against our people in Gaza,” Saree said, according to Yemen’s SABA news agency.
“The Yemeni Armed Forces, with God’s help, will mobilize all their capabilities and abilities to defend and support the oppressed in Palestine until these crimes against our people in Gaza stop,” Saree added.
The incident marked the first Yemeni attack on Israel since January 18 since the Houthis ceased their operations when the Gaza ceasefire went into effect on January 19. Last week, the Houthis announced they were reimposing the blockade on Israeli shipping in response to Israeli ceasefire violations.
The Houthi announcement prompted major US airstrikes, which killed at least 53 people, including women and children, in Yemen over the weekend. The Houthis responded with attacks on a US aircraft carrier, which were intercepted, and the message from Houthi leadership is that they will not back down in the face of US attacks.
“We affirm that we will resume escalation at the highest levels and will do everything in our power against the Israeli enemy, and we will confront any American aggression against our country in response to our operations against the Israeli enemy,” Ansar Allah leader Abdul Malik al-Houthi said on Tuesday.
I'm pretty sure that hypersonic missiles cannot be intercepted.
Israel is superman. It can intercept hypersonic missiles just like it intercepted Oct. 7th. Then again Superman doesn't exist.
*smirk*
Israel is supernothing…!
More like SUPER GENOCIDEOF THHE HELPLESS WITH AN EMPHESIS ON KIDS
& WOMEN….!!!!! SHOOTING 3 year olds in the head & chest!!!!
There’s nothing super about committing genocide of helpless and defenseless…!
Didn't the Israelis never watch the 1978 documentary film "Superman : The Movie" ??? He's not unbeatable.
Among Superman' vulnerabilities (kryptonite in the film; but in DC canon, also sonic weapons, and magic) is his inability to be in two places at once. Yemen just has to fire more missiles than the laws of physics will allow him to intercept.
And hope the ASI doesn't possess a Green Lantern ring.
The missile hit its intended target according to Houthis…!
I can only imagine, although hard to be sure… it’s much more likely that Israeli lies and Yemen says the truth (with some discreet hyperbole at times).
Same true with Pentagon…!
Has it been established that the Houthi'i possess hypersonics ? If so, "Oh f**k" should be the theme of the ASI and IDF's morning safety meetings.
The Palestine 1 and Palestine 2 missiles are allegedly hypersonic, yes. Nobody denies that that I know of. They were developed last year, are home-made and have been striking Israel repeatedly. What Yemen doesn’t have is many of them (they lack the industrial capacity), so it’s not as with the Iran and Hizbollah bombings, which were much more massive in all cases.
Interesting – thanks !
Yet !!!!!!! Not one country in the Western block has even perfected any hypersonic missile, so forget about them coming up with some new interceptor of hypersonics anytime soon. They are close to a decade behind!!!!!!!!!!!!
It’s a sign of the decline of what used to be the most powerful empire on Earth: they’re not even trying anymore, they just kick the can of the maddest corporate greed and warmongering without the tools to win.
"Houthi military spokesman Yahya Saree said the missile targeted the Nevatim airbase in Israel’s Negev desert."
An important point. The Houthinese aimed for a military base; not population centers.
"The Houthis responded with attacks on a US aircraft carrier…"
Oh my goodness – I don't know what it takes to overwhelm a carrier's defense grid and sink it, but, I hope the Houthis have it and accomplish it. What a monumental embarrassment to Empire USA that'd be.
"America's Navy : A Global Force (,) For Good" to "America's Multibillion Dollar Carrier : An Artificial Reef Forever".