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Houthis say they attacked Israeli military target with hypersonic missile

The Israel Defense Forces said in the early hours on Tuesday that a missile launched from Yemen had been intercepted before entering Israel’s airspace

DUBAI, December 24. /TASS/. The Houthis from Yemen's rebel Ansar Allah movement have delivered a strike on a military facility near Tel Aviv’ with a hypersonic ballistic missile, the movement’s military spokesperson Yahya Sarea said.

"The Yemeni armed forces’ missile troops conducted a military operation and attacked a military target of the Israeli enemy in the occupied Jaffa neighborhood with the use of a Palestine-2 hypersonic ballistic missile," he told the Houthi-controlled Al Masirah television channel.

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said in the early hours on Tuesday that a missile launched from Yemen had been intercepted before entering Israel’s airspace. However, about 20 Tel Aviv residents were hurt while rushing to a shelter when sirens sounded.

Following the escalation of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict in the Gaza Strip, the Houthis warned that they would launch strikes on Israeli territory while barring ships associated with the Jewish state from passing through the waters of the Red Sea and the Bab el-Mandeb Strait until Tel Aviv ceased its military operation against Palestinian radical group Hamas in the embattled enclave. Since mid-November, dozens of civilian ships have been attacked by the Houthi in the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden.

In response to Ansar Allah's actions, the US authorities announced the creation of an international coalition and preparations for an operation codenamed Prosperity Guardian, expected to ensure freedom of navigation and protection of ships in the Red Sea. Since then, the United States and the United Kingdom have been regularly delivering strikes on Houthi targets in Yemen.