At least sixteen people have suffered minor injuries when a missile launched by Yemen’s Houthi rebels, allies of Iran, hit Tel Aviv. has fallen in a public park near a residential complex, as reported by medical sources in the early hours of this Saturday.
“We searched the apartments, treated and evacuated 16 people with minor injuries from the scene, including a 3-year-old girl, and we also treated people affected by anxiety,” he said. Noam Weisbucha paramedic with the Israeli emergency service Magen David Adom, in a statement.
The rescue team has reported that it has treated another 14 people who suffered minor injuries while heading to bomb shelters; the injured were transferred to Wolfson Hospital in Holon and to Ichilov Hospital in Tel Aviv.
The alerts were activated throughout central Israel at 3:48 a.m. and a projectile launched from Yemen, and claimed by the Houthi rebels, hit the residential area of ​​Jaffa, south of Tel Aviv, causing damage to a playground and nearby buildings. The Israeli Army, for its part, has confirmed that attempts to intercept the missile, through its shield known as the Iron Domethey failed.
“Following alerts that were recently activated in the center of the country, a launch from Yemen was detected. Unsuccessful interception attempts were madedetecting an impact in the area,” indicated a statement issued by the military body.
The military spokesman for the Houthi rebels, Yahya Sarea, has stated in a televised statement that his units targeted “to a military target of the Israeli enemy in the occupied area of ​​Yafa (Tel Aviv) with a hypersonic ballistic missile, type ‘Palestina 2’.
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Yemen’s Houthis have launched in the last year more than 200 missiles and at least 170 drones against Israelin operations that began after the start, in October 2023, of Israel’s current war in Gaza, triggered by the attack by the Islamist group Hamas on Israeli territory.
Since the start of the war in the Gaza Strip, more than 14 months ago, the Houthis, part of the so-called ‘Axis of Resistance’ ally of Iran and against the US and Israel, they have launched drones and missiles into Israeli territory, mostly intercepted, and against ships in the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden.