Two days after Israel attacked Houthi targets in Yemen, the terror group launched a ballistic missile at central Israel in the pre-dawn hours of Shabbos morning, causing sirens to wail in numerous cities and sending millions of Israelis to their bomb shelters.
Several minutes later, the missile exploded in South Tel Aviv-Yaffo, leaving a crater in a playground between two residential buildings and shattering the windows of several apartments.
Sixteen people, including a three-year-old, were lightly injured by shattered glass, 14 people were injured while running to bomb shelters, and seven people suffered from shock. The victims were treated at the scene and evacuated to Woflson Hospital in Holon and Ichilov Hospital in Tel Aviv.
The IDF spokesperson said later that their interception attempts failed. On Motzei Shabbos, the IDF issued a statement saying that “Following an initial investigation by the Air Force and the Home Front Command on the fall of a missile launched from Yemen in the pre-dawn hours of the morning, the incident is still being thoroughly investigated. Some of the conclusions have already been implemented, both regarding interceptions and warning sirens.”
“It is not possible to provide further details regarding air defense operations and the alarm due to information security considerations. We emphasize that air defense is not airtight, and the public must continue to adhere to the guidelines of the Home Front Command.”
The incident occurred only two days after a Houthi missile hit a school in Ramat Gan, causing it to collapse.
(YWN’s Jerusalem desk is keeping you updated after tzeis ha’Shabbos in Israel)
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The Houthis have nothing to worry about with “The Most Pro-Israel President Ever” Donald Trump coming back soon.
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-administration-begins-push-end-war-yemen/story?id=58876706
Anything that does not directly attack Iran who are providing these missiles is total waste of time.
These infidels still can see and value the miracles Hashem is doing for them!!! The middas hadin is just begging for another chance to be unleashed :((
I hope that isn’t a Jewish house. I think the tree would do more damage than the missile…
The bombings of two days ago obviously didn’t get the message across to them. I conjecture that this is Iran as they need the attention diverted from their near completion of their nuclear activation progress. They need to be hit hard, and now.
Why can’t we try the trick of the generation of King Achav.
Everyone got along with each other-zero Lashon HaRah-zero fighting amongst Klal Yisroel- they went to battle and no one got hurt. Hashem protected Am Yisroel because they were united.
The headline which begins with “dozens injured” implies the attack was a success. The actual story here is the story and history of ballistic missile attacks against Eretz Yisroel, that in all the decades beginning with Saddam Hussein’s 39 Scud missiles that slammed into the Tel Aviv area night after night in the 1st Persian Gulf war and destroyed countless buildings not a single yid has ever been killed as a direct result of getting hit by a Ballistic missile. We saw this again with both of Iran’s attacks on Eretz Yisroel in which they fired hundreds of ballistic missiles that did fall and cause considerable damage but the only fatality of those attacks was a Palestinian, and even he was killed only by falling debris from an interception. The person in charge of reporting to the public on the radio in real time about where the Scuds fell, a man by the name of Nachman Shai, became a ba’al teshuva because he saw clearly that the only reason nobody was killed as a result of the massive destruction of buildings caused by the Scuds could only have been due to hashgacah pratis and a shmira of Hashem on Eretz Yisroel from ballistic missiles. And in this case we see the same thing. how the missile hit between 2 buildings, missing them, and landing on a playground that hours later would have been filled with children. We saw the same thing with the last missile from Yemen that destroyed a school in Ramat Gan at a time that it was empty. So the headline should have reflected this fact and instead read; Houthi missile lands in Tel Aviv, people injured from shattered glass.
To Not Poshut:
Thank you for a wise comment.