"We do not now see other aerial threats from Iran...So we issued instructions to [the Israeli populace] leave safety areas."
The war moved from Rafah to Modiin over one weekend.
The IDF will now probe why the interceptor impact only caused the missile to break up and did not completely destroy it.
The key claim of the missile being “hypersonic” is important to discuss because many countries and now even terrorist groups are claiming “hypersonic” capabilities.
The US had previously warned Ukraine in 2022 that Iran was in the process of supplying Russia with drones, Iran International reported on Saturday.
The Houthis' missile fired at Israel was a ballistic missile upgraded by Iran, not a hypersonic missile, according to a Technion professor.
Bloomberg further cited the officials as saying that such joint operations had increased in recent months.
IDF probing its failure to shoot down the missile outside of Israeli airspace • Nine people lightly wounded
Araqchi said on Wednesday that Tehran had not delivered any ballistic missiles to Russia and sanctions imposed on Iran by the US and three European powers would not solve any problems between them.
Iran's foreign minister denied supplying ballistic missiles to Russia, criticizing US and E3 sanctions as ineffective.
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