Yemeni Houthis claim missile attack on Israeli Defence Ministry in Tel Aviv

The Ansar Allah movement (Yemeni Houthis) has launched a second missile attack on Israeli territory in the past 12 hours.

According to the movement’s military spokesman, Yahya Saree, the Houthi forces targeted an Israeli Defence Ministry in Tel Aviv using a hypersonic ballistic missile.

“The rocket forces of the Yemeni armed forces carried out a military operation by attacking the so-called defence ministry of the Israeli enemy in the occupied area of Jaffa (Tel Aviv) with a Palestine-2 type hypersonic ballistic missile. The missile reached its target, and the interception systems failed to track it,” Saree stated on the Houthi-owned Al Masirah TV channel, Caliber.Az reports.

On January 14 morning, the Israeli army reported making “several attempts to intercept” the missile launched from Yemen. This follows a previous missile strike on January 13, during which a spokesman for the Houthi-formed military announced that a critical target in Tel Aviv had been attacked. The Israeli military stated that this missile was intercepted outside the country’s airspace.

Amid the ongoing conflict in the Gaza Strip, the Ansar Allah movement has warned that it will continue to fire rockets into Israel and block ships associated with Israel from navigating the waters of the Red Sea and Bab el-Mandeb Strait until military operations in Gaza come to an end.

Since November 2023, the Houthis have carried out numerous attacks on civilian vessels in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden. In recent weeks, they have regularly claimed responsibility for rocket attacks on central Israel, including the cities of Tel Aviv and Ashkelon.

By Tamilla Hasanova