Israeli PM vows response after Houthi missile hits

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******** PM vows response after Houthi missile hits

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says ******* will inflict a “heavy price” on the Houthi rebels who control northern Yemen, after they reached central ******* with a missile for the first time.

Houthi military spokesman Yahya Sarea said the group struck with a new hypersonic ballistic missile that travelled 2040km in just 11 and a half minutes.

An ******** military official said the missile was hit by an interceptor and fragmented in the air, rather than being completely destroyed.

Air raid sirens had sounded in Tel Aviv and across central ******* moments before the impact about 6.35am, sending residents running for shelter.

Loud booms were heard.

Missile pieces landed in fields and near a railway station.

There were no direct casualties but nine people were lightly hurt while seeking cover.

A Reuters witness saw smoke billowing in an open field in central *******.

At a weekly cabinet meeting, Netanyahu said the Houthis should have known that ******* would exact a “heavy price” for attacks on *******.

“Whoever needs a reminder of that is invited to visit the Hodeida port,” Netanyahu said, referring to an ******** retaliatory air strike against Yemen in July for a Houthi drone that hit Tel Aviv.

The Houthis have fired missiles and drones at ******* repeatedly in what they say is solidarity with the Palestinians, since the Gaza war began with a ****** ******* on ******* in October.

The drone that hit Tel Aviv for the first time in July ******* a man and wounded four people.

******** air strikes in response on Houthi military targets near the port of Hodeidah ******* six and wounded 80.

Previously, Houthi missiles have not penetrated deep into ******** air space, with the only one reported to have hit ******** territory falling in an open area near the Red Sea port of Eilat in March.

******* should expect more strikes in the future “as we approach the first anniversary of the October 7 operation, including responding to its aggression on the city of Hodeidah,” Houthi spokesman Sarea said.

The deputy head of the Houthi’s media office Nasruddin Amer said in a post on X on Sunday that the missile had reached ******* after “20 missiles ******* to intercept” it, describing it as the “beginning”.

An ******** border police officer was stabbed in the Old City of Jerusalem on Sunday in what police said was a “*******” *******.

The ******* took place near the Damascus gate and the officer was taken away for medical treatment, police said citing medical sources.

“Border police officers engaged with the **********, neutralised him with gunfire and concluded the ******* swiftly and professionally,” police said.

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