One Dead, Ten Wounded After Houthi-Claimed Drone Attack Strikes Tel Aviv
A drone attack was carried out on Ben Yehuda Street on the corner of Shalom Aleichem near the US Consulate after loud explosions were heard in Tel Aviv early Friday morning, July 19.
Yemen’s Houthis subsequently claimed responsibility for the attack. The site of the drone impact is within a few minutes walk of the US Embassy branch office on HaYarkon Street. This shows how close this impact came, not just to the US diplomatic outpost, but also the line of hotels along HaYarkon.
During searches by emergency services, the body of a lifeless man in his 50s with shrapnel marks on his body was found in an apartment near the location of the explosion. Ten people were taken to hospital with minor wounds, according to Israeli media.
According to a Saudi-owned media channel, the US intercepted a ballistic missile and three drones launched by the Houthis at Israel on Friday night, but the fourth managed to hit Tel Aviv.
IDF spokesman R.-Adm. Daniel Hagari on Friday said that in the coming days, the military and the government would meet to decide how to respond both on offense and on defense to what appears to almost certainly have been an attack by Yemen.
Hagari said that Iran manufactured and guided the Houthis of Yemen in acquiring and using the Samad-3 drone, which was used in the attack. Next, Hagari said that the Samad-3 seems to have attacked Israel from the West and from over the Mediterranean Sea.
In addition, he said that Iran had assisted the Houthis in upgrading the Samad-3’s range, which is listed publicly as around 1,500 kilometers. Although public information on the Samad-3 does not indicate it has special capabilities for avoiding Israeli radar, Hagari acknowledged that Israel’s air defense detection systems broke down in this case but did not explain the specific reason why. (JPost / VFI News)
“Lord, we pray for the family of the man who was killed by the drone attack and we ask that You bring them comfort and peace during this period of intense grief. We also pray in Yeshua’s name for the ten wounded civilians, for their physical and emotional health. We pray that they are soon discharged from the hospital and that they do not become mentally traumatized by the attack. We ask that You strengthen our defenses so that no attack remains undetected and that our skilled personnel become quickly alerted and can thwart any attacks in the future. Lastly, we thank You for our US allies who intercepted three potentially dangerous attacks from Yemen.”
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