Yemeni Missile Beats THAAD for 2nd Time This Week

Date: 09 May 2025 - 22:45

News ID: ۱۳۹۳۶۸

SANAA (Dispatches) -- A missile launched from Yemen reached the Israeli-occupied territories on Friday as the American THAAD system failed again, forcing millions to run to shelters.
Sirens were sounded across Tel Aviv and more than 200 other places, Israeli media outlets reported.
The operation had the Zionist regime scramble to activate its missile systems, including the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) system, the regime’s Channel 14 reported.
The system, however, failed to intercept the missile, according to the channel, marking the second time it has fallen short in the face of Yemeni projectiles this week.
Various Israeli outlets reported explosions in eastern Tel Aviv and Occupied Al-Quds, where the THAAD had been activated.
Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth said flights at the regime’s key Ben Gurion airport were suspended.
Yemen’s Armed Forces have carried out retaliatory operations and enforced a naval blockade on Israeli ships and vessels sailing towards the territories since October 2023.
On Sunday, they targeted Ben Gurion Airport in Tel Aviv with a hypersonic ballistic missile strike, forcing at least 12 major airlines to cancel their flights.
Hebrew media reports indicate that the missile evaded four layers of air defense systems – including the U.S.-made THAAD and Israel’s Arrow systems – before impact.
YAF spokesman Yahya Saree declared that in response to the Israeli escalation with the decision to expand aggressive operations on Gaza, Yemeni forces would impose a comprehensive air blockade on the Israeli enemy by repeatedly targeting airports, most notably Lod Airport, known in Israel as Ben Gurion Airport.
Saree said the results of the missile operation were the failure of U.S. and Israeli interceptor systems to intercept the missile, the fleeing of more than 3 million Zionists to shelters, and the complete cessation of airport traffic for more than an hour.