The Houthis (Ansar Allah) in Yemen announced on October 22 that they had attacked a military base near the central Israeli city of Tel Aviv in support of the “resistance” in the Palestinian enclave of the Gaza Strip and Lebanon.
The base was targeted with “a Palestine-2 hypersonic ballistic missile,” Houthi military spokesman Brigadier General Yahya Sarea said in a statement, noting that “the missile successfully reached its target, bypassing American and Israeli air defenses.”
“The Yemeni Armed Forces affirm that they will continue to carry out military operations against the Israeli enemy until the aggression and the siege on the Gaza Strip, as well as the aggression on Lebanon are over,” he added.
Hypersonic missiles travel and maneuver at least five times faster than the speed of sound at low altitudes in the atmosphere which makes them extremely difficult to track and intercept.
The Palestine-2 is a two-stage solid fuel missile that was first unveiled and used by the Houthis in an attack against Israel in mid- September. The group claims that the missile has a range of over 2,150 kilometers and a top speed equivalent to 16 times the speed of sound.