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Houthis attacked Israeli Defence Ministry in Tel Aviv

Doha, Jan 14 (UNI) Yemeni movement Ansar Allah, also known as the Houthis, said it had struck the Israeli Defence Ministry in Tel Aviv with a hypersonic missile.
"We carried out a military operation against the so-called Defence Ministry of the Israeli enemy in occupied Jaffa [Tel Aviv] using a Palestine-2 hypersonic ballistic missile. The ballistic missile reached its target, and interception systems were unable to stop it," the movement said on Telegram.
The operation was the third in 12 hours, the movement added.
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