A rocket, which was fired by the Houthi rebels of Jemens on Sunday, landed a cloud of smoke in the air in the terminal building near the airport Ben Gurion, the country’s most important international airport, the country’s most important international airport.
Iran -oriented Houthis in Yemen, who took responsibility for the rocket stroke, recently intensified the start of the rockets in Israel and explains that they act in solidarity in Gaza with Palestinians.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu swore to return. “We have attacked in the past that we will attack in the future,” he said in a video spread by his office.
A high -ranking Israeli police commander, Yair Hetzroni, showed reporters a crater that was caused by the effects of the rocket that the airport authorities had landed next to a street near a terminal 3 parking lot.
“You can see the scene directly behind us here, a hole that was opened with a diameter of ten meters and tens of deep ten meters,” said Hetzroni, adding that there was no significant damage.
In a statement after the strike, the Israeli Minister of Defense Israel Katz said: “Those who harm us are injured seven times.”
Israels Channel 12 News said that Netanyahu would hit Security Minister and Defense Officer on Sunday to discuss an answer.
Most missiles from Yemen were intercepted by Israel’s missile defense systems, apart from a strike that hit the capital Tel Aviv last year.
IDF examines rocket attacks
The Israeli defense forces (IDF) said it had examined it.
“Today (Sunday), around 9:18 a.m., the IDF identified the start of a rocket from Yemen towards Israeli territory. According to the protocol, sirens were sounded in a number of areas in Israel,” said the military.
“Several attempts were made to intercept the rocket. A hit was identified in the area of Ben Gurion Airport.”
A Reuters reporter at the airport, which is located between Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, heard Siren and saw passengers ran to safe rooms.
Several people posted videos at the airport, which were shot on mobile phones, which showed a clearly visible cloud with black smoke nearby, behind parked aircraft and airport buildings. Reuters did not check the videos.
The Israeli ambulance service said that eight people were taken to the hospital, including a man in a mild to moderate state with injuries to his limbs and two women in a slight condition with head injuries.
US strikes on Houthis
The military spokesman for the Houthis, Yahya Saree, said that Israel’s main airport was “no longer safe for air travel”.
A spokesman for the Israel Airports Authority said that starts and landings were resumed and that the company in Ben Gurion was normal again after reports on the increase in air traffic and access to the routes to the airport were blocked.
According to Ben Gurion’s live air traffic location, the flight operations were interrupted due to the rocket.
Several airlines, including Lufthansa, Delta, ITA Airways and Air France, said they had canceled flights from and Tel Aviv, some of which were planned for Monday or Tuesday.
The strike on Sunday took hours ahead of Israel’s army chief, Eyal Zamir, said the military had given orders to call up tens of thousands of reservists to improve and expand the operation in Gaza.
The Israel’s bombing campaign in Gaza was resumed in March after it explained to extend the first phase of a 42-day ceasefire contract with Hamas instead of continuing with the original deal and switching to discussions of the second phase that was preferred by Hamas. This was a promise from the Houthis to meet Israel with more rockets.
The efforts to revive the ceasefire are so stalled, and US President Donald Trump ordered large strikes against the Houthis in March to reduce their skills and prevent them from focusing on commercial shipping in the Red Sea.
The Houthis, who control the swaths of Yemen, began to aim at the early days between Hamas and Israel in the Gaza Strip against Israel and the Red Sea in the early war days.
The war was triggered on October 7, 2023 by the attacks on South Israel led by Hamas, in which, according to the Israeli two, around 1,200 people were killed and 251 hostages were taken. The Palestinian health authorities say that Israel’s offensive against Gaza has killed more than 50,000 Palestinians and destroyed a large part of the enclaves.
The U.S. strikes of the rebel group, which killed hundreds of people in Yemen, have been the largest US military operation in the Middle East since Trump took office in January.
