Yemen’s Hypersonic Nightmare for Israel

TEL AVIV (Dispatches) -- At least 20 Zionists were injured on Saturday when a missile launched from Yemen landed in the Tel Aviv-Jaffa area in central Israeli occupied territories.
The Israeli military confirmed the attack, stating: “A missile originating in Yemen impacted central Israel after interception attempts failed.”
The missile launch triggered sirens to sound throughout the central sector of the occupied lands at 3:44 a.m. local time (0144 GMT), sending millions rushing to shelters from their beds, according to Zionist media outlets.
According to Magen David Adom, Israel’s ambulance service, 20 individuals sustained injuries. Yemen’s Ansarullah movement claimed responsibility for the strike.
In a statement, military spokesperson Yahya Saree announced that their fighters carried out “a military operation targeting a military site of the Israeli enemy in the occupied Jaffa area with a hypersonic ballistic missile.”
The announcement came after Ansarullah claimed multiple drone strikes on central and southern Israeli occupied territories on Friday and three more military operations against Israeli positions on Thursday, coinciding with the Zionist regime’s airstrikes on Yemen’s cities of Sana’a and Hudaydah.
Yemeni armed forces, in solidarity with Gaza, which has been facing an Israeli genocidal war since Oct. 7, 2023, have targeted Israeli cargo ships or those associated with Tel Aviv in the Red Sea with missiles and drones, expressing a determination to continue operations until the end of the onslaught on the enclave.
Since the beginning of 2024, the U.S. and the UK have been conducting airstrikes in Yemen in a bid to prop up the Zionist regime and dissuade Yemeni forces from carrying out operations in the Red Sea.
With the intervention of Washington and London and an escalation of tensions, Yemen announced that it considers all American and British ships military targets.
Hezam al-Asad, a member of the political bureau of Ansarullah, said in a Hebrew-language post on X, “The failure of all Israeli defense systems means that the heart of the Zionist enemy is no longer secure.”
In another post, he said, “There is no longer any use for interception systems that cost billions of dollars.”
Israeli analysts also acknowledged that the Zionist regime is incapable of confronting Yemen and lacks intelligence-based readiness to go to war with the country’s armed forces.
According to Israeli newspaper Maariv, Zionist military forces have faced significant challenges in countering Ansarullah missile and drone attacks since the beginning of the war on Gaza in October 2023.
Maariv’s report said the Yemeni

army has launched over 200 ballistic missiles and 170 drones at Israeli targets, severely testing Israel’s defense capabilities.

It added that Israel’s defense mechanisms, particularly the Iron Dome and other air defense systems, have struggled to cope with the evolving threat posed by Ansarullah.

It noted that the sheer volume and sophistication of the attacks have continued to strain Israel’s defenses.

The report emphasized that the Israeli military is facing significant difficulties in both defending against and responding to the attacks.

It acknowledged that since the war’s beginning, Yemeni forces have inflicted significant damage Israel’s economy.

The report criticized Israel’s military response and intelligence preparation, saying the entity was unprepared for the threat posed by the Yemeni forces.

“Israel was not ready – either politically or in terms of intelligence – to deal with the threat coming from Yemen,” the report said.

The Israeli military and intelligence agencies only began reacting after the Yemeni missile and drone strikes intensified, according to the report.

Maariv stressed that efforts by the Israeli military, including airsstrikes on Yemen, were seen as little more than public relations gestures.

The failures of Israel’s air defense systems were underscored, with Maariv reporting that the “Arrow” missile defense system, the Zionist regime’s main line of defense against ballistic missiles, had failed four times in a row to intercept missiles, including three launched from Yemen and one from Lebanon.

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Yemen’s Hypersonic Nightmare for Israel