Houthis Tease ‘New Weapons’ to Keep Planes Out of Israel’s Skies

A source within Yemen’s Ansar Allah movement, widely known as the Houthis, has told Newsweek the group possesses new weapons capable of enforcing a newly announced aerial siege against Israel, whose military said it’s on high alert to thwart all emerging threats to the nation’s skies following a weekend attack on its busiest airport.

The missile was not immediately identified by the group but was said to be “hypersonic”—capable of traveling at five times the speed of sound—and followed previous operations using what the group refers to as the “Palestine 2 hypersonic missile” to target Israel amid its ongoing war with the Palestinian Hamas movement in the Gaza Strip.

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