Israel Police reported on Tuesday morning that shrapnel from the Houthi missile fired at Israel overnight Monday fell on private homes in Mevo Beitar and Tzur Hadassah, next to Beitar Illit, close to Jerusalem.

B’Chasdei Hashem, no injuries were reported despite the direct hits but property was damaged. MDA paramedics reported that 11 people were injured running to shelters during the sirens.

Surprisingly, the family members of the home in Mevo Beitar where the largest piece of shrapnel fell on the roof did not hear it landing on their house when they woke up from the siren at 3 a.m., only discovering it the next morning! Michal Wexler told Ynet that when she and her husband went out for a walk in the morning, she saw broken tiles and looked up to see the shocking sight of a large part of a ballistic missile that had pierced their roof, landing on the roof of their safe room, where they had taken shelter when the siren sounded.

The owner of the house [who lives elsewhere] told media outlets that the shrapnel piece was four meters long and completely shattered the roof. “My renters were in the safe room and were saved from harm. It could have ended very differently.”

Police officers from the Yehuda Regional Police and the Jerusalem Border Police arrived at the scenes to isolate the crash sites. “We ask the public to stay away from the crash sites and to follow the instructions of the police on the ground,” the police stated.

The police bomb squad from the Jerusalem District arrived at the sites to collect and neutralize the shrapnel pieces.

Following the attack, a Houthi spokesperson claimed that the terror group had “launched a hypersonic ‘Palestine 2’ ballistic toward an Israeli Defense Ministry building in ‘occupied Jaffa’ in our ‘third action’ within 12 hours.”

The Houthis had fired a missile at Israel on Monday evening that was intercepted by the IDF before it reached Israel.

(YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)