Yemeni missile attack exposes serious flaws in Israel's Iron Dome system: Report

The latest Yemeni retaliatory attack on Tel Aviv has exposed flaws in Israel’s missile systems as the regime's air defenses failed to destroy the ballistic missile, an Israeli report says.

Israeli newspaper Haaretz said on Sunday that “Israel's air defenses failed” to destroy the ballistic missile launched from Yemen earlier in the day, although it was an “anticipated” attack, considering that the Yemeni defense minister had issued a warning a day prior.

The Yemeni Armed Forces on Sunday struck a military target in Jaffa area, south of Tel Aviv, with a new hypersonic ballistic missile.

Brigadier General Yahya Saree, the Yemeni army’s spokesman, said the long-range advanced projectile “managed to reach its target, and the enemy’s defense systems failed to intercept and confront it.”

Israel’s military spokesman claimed that “the missile exploded in the air," with its fragments falling in an open area near the moshav of Kfar Daniel.

“The explosion itself – occurring only a few kilometers away from Ben-Gurion International Airport – may indicate flaws in Israel's defense systems and raises concerns,” Haaretz said.

A probe by the Israeli air force later confirmed the failure of the regime’s interception systems.

It found that “the interception was a partial one - one of the interceptors struck the missile but failed to destroy it.”

Yemen says hit south of Tel Aviv with new hypersonic ballistic missile

The Yemeni armed forces have struck an Israeli target near Tel Aviv with a hypersonic ballistic missile after the occupying regime failed to repel the attack and intercept the long-range advanced projectile.

Haaretz warned that if the Yemeni forces “keep firing at the airport, it could exacerbate what is already an aviation and tourism crisis.”

It was the second time the Yemeni forces managed to strike targets deep inside the occupied territories.

Back in July, a drone launched by Yemen hit an area near a US consular facility in Tel Aviv, killing one person and injuring 10 others as the Israeli systems failed to intercept the drone.

Abdul-Malik al-Houthi, the leader of Yemen’s Ansarullah resistance movement, said on Sunday the recent Yemeni missile attack was part of the fifth phase of escalation against Israel.

He stressed that anti-Israel operations will continue until the regime ends its genocidal war on Gaza.

Houthi: Yemen’s anti-Israeli operations will continue until regime ends genocide in Gaza

The leader of the Ansarullah movement says Yemen’s anti-Israeli operations will continue until the regime ends its genocide in Gaza.

Since the onset of the war, the Yemeni forces have carried out scores of operations in support of the war-hit Gazans, striking targets throughout the occupied Palestinian territories, in addition to targeting Israeli ships or vessels heading towards ports in the occupied territories.

Israel launched the war on Gaza on October 7 after the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas waged the surprise Operation Al-Aqsa Storm against the occupying entity in response to the Israeli regime's decades-long campaign of bloodletting and devastation against Palestinians.

The regime’s bloody onslaught on Gaza has so far killed at least 41,206 Palestinians, mostly women and children, and injured 95,337 others. Thousands more are also missing and presumed dead under rubble.

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