Claiming attack, Houthis say Tel Aviv targeted with hypersonic missile

In a short televised speech, Houthi military spokesman Yahya Saree claims responsibility for this morning’s ballistic missile attack on central Israel.

Saree says a hypersonic missile was launched at an unspecified military target in the Tel Aviv area, boasting that the projectile eluded the gauntlet of American and Israeli aerial defense systems, and caused “fear and panic” in Israel.

“It forced more than two million Zionists to run to shelters for the first time in the enemy’s history,” he says, after the missile and interception attempts put Tel Aviv and a wide swath of the crowded metropolitan conurbation under warning.

He threatens that Israelis can expect more attacks and “quality operations” in the lead-up to the anniversary of the October 7 attack, including a response to Israel’s July bombing of the Hodeidah port in Yemen, a lifeline for the terror group, and in order to perform the Houthis’ “religious and moral duty” to support Palestinians, he says.