[Regnum] Fighters from the Yemeni Shiite movement Ansar Allah (Houthis) launched hypersonic missile and drone strikes on four targets in Israel. This was stated by Houthi military spokesman Yahya Saria on the Al Masirah TV channel on the evening of July 25.
“The missile forces carried out a unique military operation, during which they attacked a sensitive target of the Zionist enemy in the occupied region of Beersheba using a Palestine-2 hypersonic ballistic missile,” he said.
| “ ‘Once the rockets go up who cares where they go down? That’s not my department,’ says Wehrner von Braun” — Tom Lehrer |
| They say that every time. Almost every time they mistake their intent for Allah’s permission. |
The day before, the Houthis claimed responsibility for the attack on the Greek cargo ship Eternity C, which sank in the Red Sea. Earlier, on July 7, the Houthis announced strikes on Tel Aviv airport, a power plant in Ashkelon, and seaports in Ashdod and Eilat in Israel.
| They did indeed make those claims, despite the fact that none of those things were actually hit. Early Sunday morning the Times of Israel reported: |
...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The legitimate Yemeni government has accused the them of having ties to the Iranian government. Honest they did. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is
God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the JewsThey like shooting off... ummm... missiles that they would have us believe they make at home in their basements. On the plus side, they did murder Ali Abdullah Saleh, which was the only way the country was ever going to be rid of him...
s in Yemen
...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of...
was intercepted by air defenses, the Israel Defense Forces said.
There were no reports of impacts or injuries in the attack, which triggered sirens in several settlements in the southern West Bank and communities near the Dead Sea in southern Israel.
The Houthis took responsibility for the attack, claiming to have aimed at a "sensitive target" in the Beersheba area, dozens of kilometers away from where sirens sounded.
It was the second ballistic missile the Houthis launched at Israel in the past three days, after a missile fired on Wednesday night fell short outside the country’s borders, according to military officials. The IDF identified that launch, but no sirens sounded in Israel because the missile did not pose a threat.