Don't have the patience to wait ten minutes in shelter after an alert, eh!

You want to stay outside and take videos of the interceptions as they happen in the sky above you, eh?

You might think that if a missile is intercepted in the air it is not dangerous. That is what keeps some people outside or on their balconies taking videos of incomings and their interceptions. And we have seen some beautiful videos of such spectacles.

In previous articles, I published videos showing pieces of shrapnel falling from the skies after a missile interception, landing inches from people who thought they were already safe (here and here). One more step forward, one right turn instead of left, and they could have been killed because some of those pieces are quite large. In fact, this actually happened to one person in Jericho who fell victim to an Iranian ballistic missile.

This video is difficult to watch and I doubt you need the sound.

I wish I had kept the video of the person videotaping interceptions in northern Israel when shrapnel suddenly landed in the balcony on which he was standing. Nothing happened to him but you could feel his shock and the horror at his close call.

Falling shrapnel can also contain explosive materials if the interception does not take care of the missile entirely. That is what happened near the Ayalon Mall in Ramat Gan one month ago. Again an Iranian ballistic missile.

And if you need more convincing

Did you think because of the 60-day ceasefire with Lebanon and the apparent approaching hostage deal with Hamas in Gaza that this war is winding down?

The Houthis don’t agree. At 2:30 this morning, they launched a single ballistic missile toward Israel that sent millions of people into shelters.

How can a single missile do that? The ballistic missile flies so high that if it is (hopefully) intercepted in mid-trajectory, its shrapnel can fall over a very large area. As I already showed, falling shrapnel can be dangerous.

This particular missile, while intercepted, was not totally shattered and the explosive head remained either partly or totally intact. This is what it looked like when that piece of the missile landed on a school in Ramat Gan:

Leaving this:

The moral of this story is to wait ten minutes after an alert before putting your nose outside the shelter. Is it really worth the risk to rush it or to try to get video clips?

I really do not understand why the Houthis think we would let this go by without responding. We have done them damage before — we took out their power plants and Hodeidah sea port in September this year and after this latest attack, we targetted three sea ports and two power plants in the capital city, Sana’a.

On the other hand, Times of Israel reports that our attack on Yemen was already two weeks in the planning and our pilots were getting ready to take off when the Houthi missile was launched. So perhaps they had good intelligence and they were trying to keep us from attacking them. Oh well. Tough luck.

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