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The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) announced on May 2 that a ballistic missile launched by the Houthis (Ansar Allah) from Yemen was intercepted before it could reach the country’s territories.
The missile triggered sirens at the port city of Haifa and across northern Israel. It was the second time that a missile launched from Yemen set off sirens in that part of the country.
Debris from the missile interception penetrated the roof of a kindergarten at the settlement of Mishmar Ha’emek, according to Hebrew media. No casualties were reported, however.
The Houthis announced later that they had launched a Palestine-2 ballistic missile at Ramat David Airbase in northern Israel in response to the war on the Gaza Strip.
“The Yemeni Armed Forces salute all the free mujahideen in the Gaza Strip and their ongoing heroic operations against the Israeli enemy despite the siege and aggression. They affirm that, with God’s help, they are with them with all their capabilities and potential, and that their support operations will continue until the aggression against Gaza stops and the siege is lifted,” Houthi military spokesman Brigadier General Yahya Sari said in a statement.
Hypersonic missiles travel and maneuver at least five times faster than the speed of sound at low altitudes in the atmosphere which makes them extremely difficult to track and intercept.
The Palestine-2 is a two-stage solid fuel missile that was first unveiled and used by the Houthis in an attack against Israel last September. The group claims that the missile has a range of over 2,150 kilometers and a top speed equivalent to 16 times the speed of sound.
Late on May 1, the United States military launched 13 strikes on Houthi-controlled areas in Yemen. The strikes hit the capital, Sanaa, in addition to the northern province of Saada and Al-Jawf, according to Al-Masirah TV, which didn’t report any casualties.
The U.S. military resumed strikes against Houthi-controlled areas in Yemen on March 15 on orders from President Donald Trump, who said that the large-scale operation was launched in response to the group’s renewed attacks on Israel-affiliated shipping in the Red Sea. The British military joined the operation earlier this week.
The Houthis, however, remain undeterred. Since March 18, when the IDF resumed its offensive in Gaza, the group has launched more than 20 ballistic missiles and several suicide drones at Israel.
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the zionists try to draw sympathy from debris near a kindergarten while they exterminate thousands of palestinian children with no mercy
ah, yes, but the lives of goy children are of no value, you see. the whole world was created for the exclusive benefit of us chosen folk and all you goyim were just put on the earth like donkeys to serve our needs and give us someone to swindle and leech off.
if zionists were of any religion other than the “self chosen people” they would be just as evil so it is not a matter of discrimination against zionism in palestine it the normal resentment of criminals.
isaiah 60 : 10 and the sons of strangers shall build up thy walls, and their kings shall minister unto thee. 12 for the nation and kingdom that will not serve thee shall perish; yea, those nations shall be utterly wasted.
keep pounding it!
the yemeni sand-apes keep firing bottle-rockets into the sea…heheheeh
i wish yemen had all of r*ssia’s missiles and technology. they need it. r*ssia will never use any of it. r*ssia is too busy trying to be friends with the west while dragging on their endless “special military operation”. ukraine will always be full of cîamï6 brainwashed subhumans that think they are the second coming of bandera and hitler. ukraine needs to be completely cleansed of neonazi scum. this joke smo will not achieve that
the united states congress / knesset has not declared war on yemen .