Rocket alert at 4 a.m. sends millions of Israelis running for shelter, disrupts Knesset budget vote; IDF intercepted missile before it entered Israeli airspace.
Yemen
Following Israeli air strikes on Houthi positions in Yemen, the Iranian-backed group fired a rocket that was intercepted before reaching Israeli airspace. Millions of Israelis were once again forced to go into shelters.
The strikes were carried out by 14 fighter jets in two waves, and targeted sites in Yemen’s capital and coastal area.
The strike comes after the Iranian terror proxy launched a ballistic missile at Israel.
Founder of Israel Missile Defense Organization expresses skepticism over Houthi claims of a “hypersonic” missile attack.
Netanyahu spoke in response to aerial attacks from Yemen and Lebanon.
Five people were lightly hurt running to shelters • The missile fragments were apparently intercepted by the Arrow and Iron Dome systems • An interceptor fragment hit a train station in Modi’in.
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Washington sanctioned two ship owners and two vessels tied to “an Iran-based, Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps-Qods Force-backed Houthi financial facilitator.”
The Houthis in Yemen are strategic players for the Persians in the Middle East, on the most strategic strait between the Far East and Europe, Bab el Mandeb in the Red Sea.