Missile event in Israel on Mon 11th November 2024

According to the spokesperson of the Yemeni forces, Brigadier General Yahya Saree, the government’s missile force conducted a “top-tier military operation targeting the Israeli Nahal Sorek military base southeast of occupied Yafa (Tel Aviv) using a Palestine-2 hypersonic ballistic missile.”

Saree confirmed the strike was accurate, resulting in a fire near the targeted site. He stated that the operation was conducted in support of the Palestinian and Lebanese resistance movements as part of Yemen’s fifth phase of escalation.

He also emphasized that the Yemeni Armed Forces will continue their operations until the aggression stops, the blockade on Gaza is lifted, and the attacks on Lebanon come to an end.

The statement reads as follows:

“In support of the oppressed Palestinian and Lebanese peoples and in support of the Palestinian and Lebanese resistance and within the scope of the fifth stage of escalation the missile force of the Yemeni Armed Forces carried out a specific military operation targeting the ‘Nahal Sorek’ military base southeast Yaffa in occupied Palestine. The hit was accurate and led to a fire ignition in the vicinity of the targeted site.

The operation was carried out with a hypersonic ballistic missile "Palestine 2" and achieved its objective.

The Yemeni Armed Forces, in response to the crimes of the Zionist enemy in Gaza and Lebanon, will continue their military operations, and these operations will not stop until the aggression stops, the siege on the Gaza Strip is lifted, and the aggression on Lebanon stops.”

According to Israeli media, fires broke out after a missile coming from the east (a reference that Hebrew media links to incoming projectiles from Yemen or Iraq) targeted the city of Beit Shemesh, west of (occupied) al-Quds (Jerusalem), and a number of Hetz (Arrow 3) anti-ballistic missiles were deployed to attempt to confront it.

Israeli media also reported that air raid sirens were ringing in Beit Shemesh, Kiryat Gat and surrounding areas in central Israel.