Air raid sirens sounded in Tel Aviv and surrounding areas just before impact at 6:35 a.m. local time.
fired a missile into central Israel early Sunday — prompting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to warn that Israel would “exact a heavy price” over the attack.sparked fears in the area with local media reporting that the strike caused people at Ben Gurion International Airport to race to shelters for protection.
Like other rocket attacks from the Houthis and Hezbollah, Sunday’s strike caused a large fire to break out in the rural area after it was intercepted by the IDF’s surface-to-surface missile system.TOPSHOT – First responders put out a fire in an open in Lod near Tel Aviv, caused by a missile fired from Yemen on September 15, 2024.
Greta Thunberg named ‘Antisemite of the Week’ by Jewish advocacy group after latest arrest at anti-Israel protestMissile fired by Houthis strikes central Israel and triggers air raid warning at airport “The Houthis should have known by now that we exact a heavy price for any attempt to harm us,” Netanyahu said at a Cabinet meeting.
“Anyone who needs a reminder is invited to visit the port of Hodeidah,” he added, referencing the Yemen port that was decimated by an Israeli retaliatory attack earlier this year, killing six and wounding 80. That air strike was in response to a Houthi drone that hit Tel Aviv in July, killing one and wounding four.Brig. Gen. Yahya Saree, a military spokesman for the Houthis, claimed Sunday’s attack was meant to strike a “military target” near Tel Aviv with a ballistic missile.
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