A leading Israeli security expert has called for a full investigation into why a missile launched on Sunday by the Houthis, the Iran-backed Yemeni rebel group, was not intercepted before reaching Israeli territory.
Shrapnel from the ballistic missile and interceptors launched by Israel to foil it sparked a fire in a forest in central Israel.
The Houthis had claimed the projectile was a hypersonic cruise missile which pose a greater threat than older weapons as they travel faster.
But Dr Yehoshua Kalisky of Israel’s Institute for National Security Studies said that data on the missile launched on Sunday made available indicated that it was “certainly not a hypersonic cruise missile”.
