Islamabad - According to the news agency AFP, after this incident, broken glasses were seen at a train station in the Modi'in area, while firefighters in the Lud area extinguished the fire in the bushes. I was busy. Both of these areas are located southeast of Tel Aviv, the commercial center of Israel.
A surface-to-surface missile was identified, which entered central Israel from the east and landed in an open area, the Israeli military said in a statement released on Sunday.
No one was injured in this incident.
The missile was launched from Yemen and was intercepted in time," the statement added.
According to the Israeli army, the sounds of explosions that were heard were from the missiles, which are part of the country's defense system.
On the other hand, the daily Jerusalem Post reported that this ballistic missile was fired towards the metropolitan area of Tel Aviv.
According to the newspaper, Israel's Arrow 3 missile defense system apparently failed to intercept the missile before it entered the atmosphere, and the missile was shot down in time on a second attempt.
According to local media reports, fragments of this missile fell in different parts of the country
Houthi rebels claimed responsibility
Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen claimed to have launched a ballistic missile attack on Israel on Sunday and threatened more such attacks.
Yahya Sari, a spokesman for the Houthi rebels' army, said the attack was carried out by a new hypersonic ballistic missile which was intended to hit an Israeli military target in Jaffa.
The missile traveled about 2,040 kilometers in 11:30 minutes the Houthi spokesman said in a televised message. Israel should expect more such attacks.
This is just the beginning Nasruddin Amir, the deputy head of the media office of the Houthi rebels, wrote on X on Sunday.
Yemen's Houthi rebels have been attacking Israel and its interests in solidarity with the Palestinians over the war in the Gaza Strip. These Yemeni rebels have also launched dozens of missile and drone attacks on cargo ships in the Gulf of Aden and the Red Sea since November last year.
Both these waterways are very important for world trade
Houthi rebels will have to pay a heavy price, Netanyahu
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday that the Houthis in Yemen should have known that they would have to pay a heavy price after attacking Israeli soil. He said this at the beginning of the weekly cabinet meeting.
The situation in northern Israel cannot continue like this any longer he added, adding that every effort will be made to return the citizens who left northern Israel to their homes
Israeli operations in Gaza continue
Meanwhile, four more Palestinians have been killed as a result of Israeli attacks in the Gaza Strip on Sunday.
Three of them were killed by shelling on a house in central Gaza, according to al-Awda Hospital, while an attack also hit the Jabalia refugee camp, where a Palestinian was killed.
According to Gaza's Hamas-run Health Ministry, at least 41,206 Palestinians have been killed and 95,337 wounded since the start of the war. According to UN figures, most of the dead and injured are women and children.
The Gaza war began on October 7 last year as a result of a terrorist attack by Hamas on southern Israel, in which 1,205 people were killed, most of them civilians. Hamas militants also took 251 Israeli hostages during the attack, 97 of whom are still being held captive by Hamas in Gaza. According to Israeli forces, 33 hostages have been killed so far
