This Monday, Israel intercepted a surface-to-surface missile launched from Yemen against the center of the country, where anti-aircraft alarms sounded this afternoon, confirmed the Arabic spokesman for the Israeli Army, Avichay Adraee.
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In the city of Tel Aviv and at Ben Gurion International Airport, alarms also sounded, forcing the diversion of a flight from Sofia that finally landed at Jordan’s Queen Alia International Airfield.as could be seen on the flight tracking page Flightradar24.
Since the outbreak of the war in Gaza, attacks by Yemen’s Houthi rebels, supported by Iran, against Israel and against ships in the Red Sea have become common, but in recent weeks the arrival of drones and missiles fired by the group against the country is becoming more frequent.
This Monday, one year since the Hamas attacks of October 7, the alarms also sounded at 06:31 local time (03:31 GMT) in some of the communities bordering the Gaza Strip, where Israel detected the arrival of four rockets.
The Army will continue to operate against the Hezbollah threat in defense of the State of Israel and its residents.
According to the Army, Three of the projectiles were intercepted by the air force, while one of them fell in an “open area” without causing damage or injuries..
In the north of the country, at least 135 projectiles were fired by Hezbollah from Lebanon towards Israeli territory, according to the Army.
“The Army will continue to operate against the threat of Hezbollah in defense of the State of Israel and its residents,” he added in a statement.
Since the conflict spread to Lebanon, more than 2,000 people have diedaccording to data from the Lebanese Ministry of Public Health, and 1.2 million have been forced to move due to constant Israeli attacks.
Yemen’s Houthis claim responsibility for two attacks
The Shiite Houthi rebels of Yemen claimed responsibility this Monday for two new attacks with missiles and “several drones” against Tel Aviv and the port of Eilat and assured that they “successfully achieved their objectives.”
Houthi military spokesman Yahya Sarea stated that Those military operations were launched in support of “the resistance in Gaza and Lebanon and on the occasion of the first anniversary of October 7,” 2023.in reference to the attack by the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas against Israel that caused the death of 1,200 people.
“The first operation targeted two military objectives of the Israeli enemy in the occupied region of Yafa (Tel Aviv) with two missiles, the first of the Palestine2 type, which managed to reach its target, and the second with a Zulfiqar missile (… ) and the operation successfully achieved its objectives,” Sarea said in a statement.
He indicated that “previously the armed forces of Yemen (as the Houthis call themselves) launched several drones against targets in the region of Yafa, and Umm al Rashrash (Eilat), in the south of occupied Palestine with ‘Yafa’ and ‘Sammad4’ drones. “.
“Several of these unmanned aircraft successfully achieved their objectives, thank God,” he said.
Israel orders maritime evacuations more than 50 kilometers from the border with Lebanon
The Israeli Army this Monday ordered the forced evacuation of the Lebanese coasts south of the Awali River, located more than 50 kilometers from the border between Israel and Lebanon, while continuing its offensive against the Shiite group Hezbollah in the country.
“Hezbollah’s activities force the Army to act against it and the Army will soon act in the maritime zone against Hezbollah’s terrorist activities,” the Arabic spokesman for the Israeli forces, Avichay Adraee, said in a message.
Adraee asked civilians, including bathers or fishermen, to avoid being in the water off the Lebanese coast or even on the beaches located south of Awali..
Since it began its invasion of southern Lebanon, which Israel characterizes as “limited incursions” against Hezbollah infrastructure along the border, the country has requested the evacuation of more than a hundred Lebanese towns, including the city of Nabatieh, one of the most important in the area.
In all cases, Israel has asked civilians to go north of the Awali River, located more than 50 kilometers from the border.
The area is much further north than the Litani River (30 kilometers), which marks the demilitarized area designated by the UN after the 2006 war between Israel and Hezbollah, where there should be no armed presence other than the Lebanese authorities and the United Nations mission in the country (UNIFIL), which raises fears of an expansion of the offensive.
Israel has been exchanging fire with the Shiite group Hezbollah across the Lebanese border for almost a year, and last Monday, after a week of intense bombing against the south and east of the country, it announced the sending of troops to southern Lebanon to dismantle militia infrastructure.
Since then, At least eleven Israeli soldiers have died in the fighting, according to figures published by the Israeli Army.
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