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Alameen Templeton
The Houthis have hit Tel Aviv again, this time with a ballistic missile that foiled Israel’s expensive air defences and hit an open field, while promising a lot more is coming.
Israel responded furiously last time the AnsarAllah breached their capital’s defences with a drone in July. Then, Israeli jets pounded sites in Yemen in response to the attack that killed on person and injured three.
Sunday morning’s attack caused no casualties, but Zionists will be alarmed that a ballistic missile made it all the way from Yemen and still managed to evade defences without a preceding swarm of decoy drones to drain Iron Dome interceptor missiles.
The Media Line reports the explosion triggered air raid sirens in the capital and surrounding areas, sending residents scurrying for shelter. Witnesses said missile interceptors were launched, but only after the AnsarAllah missile had already hit the ground. They reported loud booms were heard across the region.
Still killing civilians
Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu threatened Israel would “exact a heavy price” for the attack while also promising settlers from the occupied Golan would be allowed to return soon.
He made the threats while his luftwaffe attacked with impunity civilians in Gaza, destroying an entire block in sheikh Radwan neighbourhood in western Gaza City, blowing up more refugees in their tents in the Al-Mawasi “safe zone” just outside Rafah, along with strikes on the nearby neighbourhoods of Tal as-Sultan and Saudi.
The strikes took the Gaza Health Ministry’s official death toll to 41 206 after 344 days of genocide.
Brigadier General Yahya Saree, who has become the “face” of the AnsarAllah, said the Yemeni Armed Forces had launched a new, hypersonic missile as part of an escalation as the Gaza genocide approaches the October 7, one-year mark.
He said the missile took just 11.5minutes to travel the 2 040 kilometres to Tel Aviv.
That would explain why the Iron Dome defences were thwarted. The attack lays bare just how vulnerable Israel is to the new, faster-than-sound missiles and will have them turning their eyes to Teheran that has still not unleashed its promised response to Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh’s assassination.
The shortest distance from Iran to Israel is about 1 000km, which is half the distance from Yemen, implying the Zionists would have just six minutes to respond to a hypersonic missile fired from Iran. Peshmerga forces in Iraq have also been firing missiles at Israel, which opens yet another possibly source of attack that will have Israeli military experts scratching their heads at the possible permutations of asymmetric warfare.
‘Just the beginning’
Saree warned that “Israel” should anticipate more sophisticated strikes and operations as the first anniversary of the Operation Al-Aqsa Flood approaches on October 7. Responses would include reprisals to Israel’s air attacks on Hodeidah and actions in support of the oppressed Palestinians.
Al Mayadeen reports unidentified sources claim Yemen is preparing for an extended war with the occupation, using “multifaceted” tactics with a “long-term perspective in mind”.
That will have military analysts asking if Iran is turning to asymmetric warfare to respond to the Haniyeh assassination – is it turning to its allies, its “Axis of Resistance” to deliver the response, while providing them with all the missiles and advice they need to ensure an effective retaliation?
Al Mayadeen reports its “sources further noted that “Israel” should no longer rely solely on its defense systems, as Yemen promises that future responses will involve precise, well-planned, strategic, and continuous operations, stressing that the Yemeni Army has committed to delivering on its promises and maintaining a high level of operational surprise”.
Noses out of joint
The UK’s Guardian newspaper reports the Houthi missile triggered air sirens across Israel at about 6.30am. Local media aired footage of people racing to shelters at Ben Gurion airport. Reports said the missile hit an open area in the Ben Shemen forest, sparking a fire near Kfar Daniel.
The Israeli luftwaffe said the fire may have been the result of falling fragments of interceptor missiles, not wanting to admit the rocket had actually penetrated air defences as the Houthis said. The luftwaffe said it made several attempts to intercept the missile with multi-tiered air defences but could not say if any had been successful.
“An initial inquiry indicates the missile most likely fragmented in mid-air,” the IDF said, adding “the entire incident is under review”.
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