DUBAI, December 28. /TASS/. Yemen’s Houthis from the rebel Ansar Allah movement launched a "hypersonic ballistic missile" at Israel’s Nevatim airbase located in the Negev Desert, Yahya Saree, the organization’s military spokesperson, announced.

"The Yemeni missile forces used a Palestine-2 hypersonic ballistic missile to strike the Israeli adversary’s Nevatim airbase in the Negev area in the south of occupied Palestine. The missile successfully hit its target," he reported to the Houthi-owned Al Masirah television channel.

On early Saturday, the Israeli army reported intercepting a missile launched from Yemen. According to the report, the missile was shot down before reaching Israel’s airspace. At night, air alert was sounded in the areas of Jerusalem and the Dead Sea.

With the conflict in the Gaza Strip escalating, the Ansar Allah movement declared that it would conduct strikes on Israeli territory and block pro-Israeli vessels from passing through the waters of the Red Sea and the Bab el-Mandeb Strait until Tel Aviv halts its military operation in the Palestinian enclave. The Houthis have attacked dozens of civilian vessels in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden since mid-November of last year.

In recent weeks, the Houthis have regularly reported missile attacks on central Israel, including the cities of Tel Aviv and Ashkelon. On December 21, Israeli servicemen detected the launch of a missile from Yemen into Israel. The missile was not intercepted, the Israeli army confirmed. At least 30 people were injured in that attack.