Updated March 25th 2025, 01:18 IST
Tel Aviv: Air raid sirens were sounded in Israel on Monday night as the skies witnessed Israeli air defense system intercepting and destroying ballistic missiles launched by Yemeni Houthis.
Videos emerged on social media showed several projectiles breaking into fiery fragments mid-air after being intercepted by the Israeli defense system. This comes days after the United States launched airstrikes targeting Iran-backed Houthi terror groups in Yemen, aiming to secure trade routes.
As Yemen launched multiple ballistic missiles targeting Israel, a map showed thousands of Israelis assembled in bomb shelters, fearing for their lives.
People on social media expressed support for Israel which was under attack by Houthis saying no country should accept living like this.
“The Houthis, Hamas, and Hezbollah are all the same. They’re all monsters, and Israel has every right to obliterate all of them without even giving an inch of explanation to anyone,” an X Vivid wrote on the microblogging platform.
The danger rocket sirens were sounded in Tel Aviv, all of central Israel, also Jerusalem with large booms heard in Modiin. The ballistic missiles from Yemen were intercepted.
In another development, Hamas' Political Bureau member, Ismail Barhoum, was successfully eliminated by the Israeli Air Force.
US President Donald Trump while speaking to press on Monday told a journalist that he was hearing it for the first time that US officials texted their war planes against Yemen to a group chat, revealed by Atlantic magazine.
According to the Atlantic, the group chat involved top US government officials including Vice President JD Vance, NSA Michael Waltz, and Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth.
Atlantic Editor-in-Chief Jeffery Goldberg claimed that US officials added him to a Signal chat group, as they discussed US war plans in Yemen.
Responding to the journalist, Trump said that he didn’t know anything about this as he’s not a big fan of ‘The Atlantic’. According to him, it's a magazine that's going out of business.
Published March 25th 2025, 00:58 IST