Israeli army spokesman, Avichay Ardaei, suggested that the missile that the Houthi group fired at Israel on Sunday “disintegrated in the air.”

Adraee wrote in his account on “X” that “from the initial examination it appears that the Yemeni missile apparently disintegrated in the air.”

He referred to “several interception attempts through the Arrow (Hetz) and Iron Dome systems,” and fragments of an interception operation were detected in open areas and inside a train station, and a fire broke out that was extinguished.

The Yemeni Houthi group claimed responsibility for launching a ballistic missile that reached central Israel. The military spokesman for the group said in a statement: “The operation was carried out with a new hypersonic ballistic missile that succeeded (...) in reaching its target, and the enemy’s defenses failed to intercept and confront it.”

On Sunday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu promised the Houthi group that it would pay a heavy price for any attack on Israeli territory, saying at the weekly government meeting: “We are in a multi-front battle against the Iranian axis of evil that seeks to destroy us.”