News - Middle East: A day after the Yemeni military launched a supersonic ballistic missile that evaded Israeli radar systems and struck the heart of Tel Aviv, Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar wrote a letter to the leader of Yemen’s Ansarullah resistance movement Sayyed Abdul-Malik al-Houthi.

In the letter, Sinwar’s first to Houthi, the newly-appointed leader of the Gaza-based Palestinian resistance movement thanked Yemen for “reigniting” the intensity of Operation Al-Aqsa Flood and reminding the Zionist regime that its “containment plan” against the resistance front has failed.

In the wee hours of Sunday morning, in a stunning development that hogged headlines and took the Tel Aviv regime and its Western backers by complete surprise, a Yemeni hypersonic ballistic missile soared over 2,000 kilometers to strike its target in Tel Aviv.

It marked the first time a Yemeni missile landed in the heart of Israeli-occupied territories, showcasing the Arab country’s growing military capabilities and failure of the much-hyped defense system of the Israeli regime, the US, and its Arab allies.

“[The missile] traveled a distance of 2,040 km in 11 and a half minutes, causing panic among Zionists, with over two million seeking shelter for the first time in the history of the Israeli enemy,” Brigadier General Yahya Saree, spokesperson for the Yemeni Armed Forces, said in a statement.

The attack on Tel Aviv came against the backdrop of the Israeli regime’s genocidal war on the Gaza Strip, which has so far claimed the lives of 41,252 Palestinians, most of them children and women.