Yemeni strike sounds sirens across central Israeli occupied cities

By Al Mayadeen English
Source: Israeli media
20 Mar 2025 05:03
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13 settlers rushing to bomb shelters were injured in a stampede after sirens sounded in occupied Palestine.

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An image showing the Yemeni missile Palestine 2 (Yemeni Armed Forces)

Sirens sounded across central Israeli-occupied Palestine, including in Tel Aviv and al-Quds, following a ballistic missile strike, originating from Yemen, Israeli media reported.

The sirens were sounded at 4:01 am (local time), while Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was at the Knesset, Israeli Channel 14 reported.

Netanyahu was reportedly escorted to a bomb shelter during the event. Countless other settlers also rushed to safe areas, where 13 were injured due to stampedes.

Furthermore, flights were diverted from the Ben Gurion Airport.

However, Israeli occupation forces said that the missile was intercepted over Saudi Arabia.

This marks the second strike attributed to the Yemeni Armed Forces (YAF) since the renewal of the Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip, which also coincides with renewed United States-led strikes on Yemen.

Later the spokesperson for the YAF, Brigadier General Yahya Saree, announced that Yemen's Rocket Force fired a Palestine-2 hypersonic missile at the Ben Gurion Airport in response to the ongoing Israeli massacres against Palestinians.

He also mentioned that various branches of the YAF conducted coordinated attacks against the American aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman and other vessels in the Red Sea.

US aggression on Yemen continues

On Wednesday evening, US warplanes launched fresh airstrikes on Yemen, targeting the capital Sanaa, and the provinces of Saada and al-Bayda, an Al Mayadeen correspondent in Yemen reported.

The strikes hit areas near the Ministry of Communications and the Postal Authority in northern Sanaa.

In al-Bayda, US aircraft targeted the al-Sawadiyah district, while in Saada, airstrikes struck the outskirts of the city, the correspondent reported. According to Yemen’s SABA news agency, the US attack on the al-Thawra district in northern Sanaa hit an unfinished event hall within a residential neighborhood.

Overnight on Thursday, US airstrikes targeting various areas in Yemen renewed. Al Mayadeen's correspondent reported that strikes targeted the Zabid district in the coastal Hodeidah governorate. Another set of strikes targeted the Saada governorate, our correspondent added.

Meanwhile, the YAF has engaged the US Navy, which is responsible for such attacks on Yemen, in intermittent battles, targeting Carrier Strike Group 8 on multiple occasions.

In his statement, Saree emphasized that the intensification of American air raids targeting Yemen will not stop Yemenis from supporting the Palestinian people. He reiterated that these operations will continue until the aggression on Palestinians is halted and the siege on the Gaza Strip is lifted.