The Yemen based group says that the hypersonic missile fired at Ben Gurion’s airport during the second attack after Israel broke the ceasefire in Gaza.
The Houthis launched a hypersonic missile at Israel’s airport Ben Gurion, a few days after the Israeli army broke a cease-fire in Gaza, the Yemeni group said.
“The Yemeni armed forces have carried out a qualitative military operation targeting Ben Gurion airport in the occupied Jaffa region with a Palestine-2 hypersonic ballistic missile,” said Houthi spokesman Yahya Saree on Thursday.
He said that the operation “managed to achieve its goal”, without developing. This was the second type attack since the United States began a new campaign of air raids against rebels earlier this week.
The Israeli army said it had intercepted the missile before entering the country’s territory early Thursday. The sirens sounded in several areas in Israel after the projectile dismissal, the army said in an article on Telegram.
Israeli police said the sirens were heard in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem. Israel’s ambulance service said no serious injury had been reported.
The United States has targeted Yemen with waves of strikes since Saturday, and the Houthis said that it would degene its attacks, including on Israel, in response. American attacks have killed at least 31 people.
On Tuesday, the Houthis said they had pulled a ballistic missile to Israel and widen their range of targets in the coming days in retaliation for Israel breaking the ceasefire in Gaza.
The renewed attacks of Israel since Tuesday have killed at least 710 Palestinians and injured more than 900 others, according to the Gaza Ministry of Health.
The Houthis led more than 100 attacks against the expedition since the War of Israel against Gaza began at the end of 2023, saying that they act in solidarity with the Palestinians of Gaza.
On Wednesday, American president Donald Trump renewed his call to Iran to end his support for the Houthis, committing to the Yemeni group to be defeated by Washington.
Although Houthis are allied with Iran, it is not clear how much they count on Iranian support or so Tehran can order them to stop their attacks.
On Thursday, the supreme leader of Iran, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, said that American strikes in Yemen were a “crime that was to be arrested”.
“This attack on the inhabitants of Yemen, against Yemeni civilians, is also a crime that must be arrested,” said Khamenei, according to a video published on his website.
