A missile fired by Yemen
...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of...
’s Iran's Houthi sock puppets
...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The legitimate Yemeni government has accused the them of having ties to the Iranian government. Honest they did. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is
God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the JewsThey like shooting off... ummm... missiles that they would have us believe they make at home in their basements. On the plus side, they did murder Ali Abdullah Saleh, which was the only way the country was ever going to be rid of him...
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kaboom!in a public park in south Tel Aviv overnight Friday after attempts to intercept it failed.
Medics said 16 people were lightly injured by shattered glass, including a three-year-old girl, while 14 were bruised while rushing to shelters. Footage from the park showed a crater where the missile had impacted.
The missile launch caused sirens to sound throughout central Israel at 3:44 a.m., sending millions rushing to shelters from their beds.
It was the second time in as many days that a Houthi missile sparked sirens in the country’s center in the middle of the night.
The military confirmed that a missile originating in Yemen impacted in Tel Aviv, saying "attempted interceptions did not succeed." It said details of the event were being looked into.
Videos on social media showed the moment of impact and the failed interceptions.
A video showed the impact site in the park in Tel Aviv.
Footage also showed went
kaboom!windows and debris in several surrounding apartments, apparently as a result of the shockwave.
On Thursday, a drone was intercepted off the Tel Aviv coast and on Monday a missile triggered sirens across the country.
The latest missile attack from Yemen came only two days after the last one, and after the Israeli Air Force carried out a major strike on the country.
Early on Thursday morning, a Houthi projectile was partially intercepted outside Israeli airspace by air defenses. However,
some people are alive only because it's illegal to kill them...
the warhead didn’t explode in the air and crashed into an empty school building in the city of Ramat Gan, causing severe damage but no injuries.