Houthis Launch New Solid-Fuel ‘Palestine’ in Newest Attack on Israel
Yemen’s Houthi rebels revealed their latest advancement in missile technology Wednesday evening, launching what the group’s media office claims to be a solid-fuel hypersonic rocket at the southern Israeli port city of Eilat.
The Houthis released footage of the missile, named “Palestine,” firing from what appeared to be a mobile launcher and emitting white smoke.
With a warhead painted to resemble a keffiyeh scarf, a wildly popular symbol of the Palestinian cause, the Houthis claim that the powerful rocket was manufactured “locally” within Yemen itself.
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Hypersonic solid-fuel missiles such as the “Palestine,” however, are technologically and materially complicated to make, and it is, therefore, unclear how the Houthis, who are based in the Arab world’s poorest nation, would be able to produce such advanced firepower domestically.
Iran sees the Shiite Houthis as a key member of the “Axis of Resistance,” a network of ideologically aligned proxy groups directly opposing the regime’s regional rivals such as Saudi Arabia, Israel, and the United States.
Through its paramilitary Revolutionary Guard force, Iran provides these groups with funding, training, and arms.
Iranian state media, citing the Houthi’s media office, claimed that Yemen produced the missile, but the rocket’s shape was strikingly similar to the Revolutionary Guard’s own Fattah, or “Conqueror” rocket.
