Sirens blare across central Israel after Yemen's Houthis launch ballistic missile
This is the second time this week that Yemen targeted Israel. An initial drone was fired toward the country on Monday.
Sirens sounded across central Israel after the Houthis in Yemen fired a ballistic missile at the Jewish state, the IDF announced early on Thursday morning.
The military said that the missile was intercepted by the air force before crossing into Israeli territory, and sirens were sounded due to the possibility of falling shrapnel.
Both the IDF and Israel's emergency medical service, Magen David Adom, said that no one was wounded due to shrapnel. However, several people reported suffering from panic attacks or minor injuries on the way to safe rooms.
The Houthis released a statement on Thursday morning, saying that they fired two ballistic missiles towards Israel.
On Thursday morning, the Ramat Gan municipality announced that shrapnel had damaged the main building of the Ramat Efal school, causing it to collapse.
The interception caused explosions to be heard across the country.
האזעקות במרכז: יורט טיל אחד ששוגר מתימן טרם חצה לשטח הארץ, ההתרעות הופעלו מחשש לנפילת שברי יירוט@Doron_Kadosh @galdjerassi pic.twitter.com/789s2kIJhh
— גלצ (@GLZRadio) December 19, 2024
Missiles from Yemen
This is the second time this week that the Houthis targeted Israel. On Monday, the Yemeni terror group launched a drone at the country.
An IDF missile boat intercepted the Yemen drone at the time, and Israel's military noted that it had not crossed into Israeli territory.
"Occupied Jaffa 'Tel Aviv' is not safe for Zionists," Nasruddin Amer, chairman of the Houthi-backed Yemeni state news agency Saba, posted on X/Twitter, along with a photo of what he called "A new failure of the Zionist air defense."
يافا المحتلة "تل أبيب" غير آمنة للصهاينةوفشل جديد للدفاعات الجوية الصهيونية pic.twitter.com/Vwq5zXPm7p
— نصر الدين عامر | Nasruddin Amer (@Nasr_Amer1) December 19, 2024
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