A missile fell on Sunday near Tel Aviv International Airport after the announcement of a Yemen shot, causing a brief interruption of air traffic and threats of Israeli reprisals. The shot was claimed by the Houthis rebels of Yemen, allies of the Palestinian Hamas movement, claimed several attacks on missiles and drones against Israeli territory since the start of the war in Gaza.
Alert sirens sounded in the morning in several regions of Israel, the army announced. The anti-aircraft defenses tried to intercept the missile from Yemen, she said in a press release. Journalists said they heard explosions in the regions of Jerusalem and Ben -Gurion airport in the center of the country.
Yemeni missile or by an Israeli counter-missile?
Police reported an “missile impact” near the international airport. “You can see the area just behind us: a crater has been formed there, several tens of meters and also several tens of meters,” said police chief in the center of Israel, Yaïr Hezroni, in a video with the control tower of the airport in the background.
-According to Israeli media, police are still trying to determine whether the impact was caused by the Yemeni missile or by an Israeli counter-missile. Airport authorities have announced the resumption of air traffic after a brief interruption. “Takeoffs and landings have taken up normally. Ben -Gurion airport is open and operational, ”said a statement.
“Seven times stronger”
Defense Minister Israel Katz threatened to fight back to this shot by hitting “seven times stronger”. Israel has already carried out several attacks on Houthi targets in Yemen. “The one who strikes us will be struck seven times stronger,” he said in a brief press release. The Houthis, supported by Iran, a sworn enemy of Israel, had previously claimed shots towards this airport but the army had claimed to have intercepted them.
On Friday, they claimed the shots of two missiles on Israel, several hours apart, of which the Israeli army announced the interception. The military spokesman for Houthis, Yahya Saree, said in a video that the group had targeted a military installation in the center of Israel with “a Palestine 2 hypersonic missile”. The Houthi rebels control large sides of Yemen at war, including the capital Sanaa, more than 1,800 km from the southern border of Israel.
