TEHRAN- The Ansarullah-led government forces have announced the targeting of an Israeli military base near Tel Aviv.

According to the spokesperson of the Yemeni forces, Brigadier General Yahya Saree, the government’s missile force conducted a “top-tier military operation targeting the Israeli Nahal Sorek military base southeast of occupied Yafa (Tel Aviv) using a Palestine-2 hypersonic ballistic missile.”

Saree confirmed the strike was accurate, resulting in a fire near the targeted site. He stated that the operation was conducted in support of the Palestinian and Lebanese resistance movements as part of Yemen’s fifth phase of escalation.

He also emphasized that the Yemeni Armed Forces will continue their operations until the aggression stops, the blockade on Gaza is lifted, and the attacks on Lebanon come to an end.

The statement reads as follows:

“In support of the oppressed Palestinian and Lebanese peoples and in support of the Palestinian and Lebanese resistance and within the scope of the fifth stage of escalation the missile force of the Yemeni Armed Forces carried out a specific military operation targeting the ‘Nahal Sorek’ military base southeast Yaffa in occupied Palestine. The hit was accurate and led to a fire ignition in the vicinity of the targeted site.

The operation was carried out with a hypersonic ballistic missile "Palestine 2" and achieved its objective.

The Yemeni Armed Forces, in response to the crimes of the Zionist enemy in Gaza and Lebanon, will continue their military operations, and these operations will not stop until the aggression stops, the siege on the Gaza Strip is lifted, and the aggression on Lebanon stops.”

According to Israeli media, fires broke out after a missile coming from the east (a reference that Hebrew media links to incoming projectiles from Yemen or Iraq) targeted the city of Beit Shemesh, west of (occupied) al-Quds (Jerusalem), and a number of Hetz (Arrow 3) anti-ballistic missiles were deployed to attempt to confront it.

Israeli media also reported that air raid sirens were ringing in Beit Shemesh, Kiryat Gat and surrounding areas in central Israel. 

Since late October last year, the government in Sanaa has started military operations in solidarity with Gaza. These operations later expanded in the aftermath of the widening Israeli war on Lebanon.

Yemeni forces enforced a blockade on Israeli and Israeli-affiliated ships from sailing in the Red Sea, the Indian Ocean, or docking at Israeli ports.

Numerous American, British, and more recently Israeli attacks on Yemen have failed to end or deter the Ansarullah government from ending its military support for Gaza.

The latest operation that targeted the Israeli Nahal Sorek military base comes on the backdrop of further aggression by the United States and Britain against Yemen this week. 

Earlier on Monday, American and British warplanes carried out two air raids in the Safra district of Saada and seven raids on the Sufyan district in Amran, north of the capital Sanaa, for the second day in a row.

The Yemeni Armed Forces have also struck the Israeli regime with missiles and drones that have seen Tel Aviv and the southern port of Eilat come under attack.  

In July, a drone launched by the Sanaa government forces evaded the multi-layered Israeli air defense system and struck Tel Aviv, leaving one person dead and wounding at least ten others. 

The use of surface-to-surface hypersonic missiles by the Yemeni forces has proven almost impossible for Israeli air defense systems to intercept.

According to experts, the Sana'a Armed Forces have perfected the production and growth of indigenous hypersonic ballistic missiles.

The Palestine-2 ballistic missile was also used on Friday to strike the Israeli Nevatim airbase in the Negev desert. 

The airbase, which houses many of the regime’s fighter jets that have been used to kill and injure around 150,000 Palestinians in Gaza, mostly women and children, was also subject to widespread destruction during the Iranian retaliatory missile attack against the regime on October 1.

Israeli warplanes have also taken off from the same air base to pound residential areas in Lebanon where around 3,350 people have been killed and at least 14,000 others injured since October 2023.