Sunday Morning : Houthis Launch Ballistic Missile at Tel Aviv

Nadene Goldfoot                                            

                            Ballistic missile, a rocket-propelled self-guided strategic-weapons system that follows a ballistic trajectory to deliver a payload from its launch site to a predetermined target. Ballistic missiles can carry conventional high explosives as well as chemical, biological, or nuclear munitions. They can be launched from aircraft, ships, and submarines in addition to land-based silos and mobile platforms 

First off, sirens in the upper Galilee of  Northern Israel:  I had lived in Tzfat (Safed).   People there might have also heard them.  

Iran-backed Yemen Houthis  launched a ballistic surface to surface missile from  at first thought from Lebanon, but then found to come from Yemen,  at Tel Aviv located in Central Israel.  This turned out to become massive rocket barrages.  It broke apart in  mid-air before shrapnel fell into Mod'in.  

According to the Israel Defense Forces, at 6:21 on Sunday morning, the missile was launched from Yemen towards Israeli territory, and it likely fragmented mid-air, according to preliminary findings.

      Iran Has 3,000 Ballistic Missiles Ready for War

In 2022, U.S. Marine Corps Gen. Kenneth McKenzie, the commander of U.S. Central Command, assessed that the Iranian military and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps could field more than 3,000 ballistic missiles of all types. 

Northern Israel was bombarded with 40 rockets.  This happened while southern Lebanon was warned by the IDF air force with dropped leaflets to evacuate because of impending attacks.  

Hamas praised the Houthi hit, of course. 

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The distance between Beirut (Beirut–Rafic Hariri International Airport) and Tel Aviv (Ben Gurion Airport) is 130 miles / 208 kilometers / 113 nautical miles. The driving distance from Beirut (BEY) to Tel Aviv (TLV) is 260 miles / 418 kilometers, and travel time by car is about 5 hours 9 minutes.  

The distance from Yemen to Tel Aviv by air is about 2,114 miles. This measurement is based on the typical flight paths between Aden International Airport (ADE) and Ben Gurion International Airport (TLV). 

Can this be the start of the major war ?  

edited on 9/16/24, again morning of 9/17/24 with Yemen map

https://www.jns.org/iran-using-houthis-yemen-as-weapons-testing-ground/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZfzTMXYzsU 

https://www.i24news.tv/en/news/israel-at-war/artc-houthis-target-central-israel-with-missile-at-least-40-rockets-target-northern-israel-from-lebanon-live-blog

https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/iran-has-3000-ballistic-missiles-ready-war-210622