Yemen’s Houthi movement said on Thursday it attacked Israel’s Ben-Gurion airport with a “hypersonic ballistic missile.”
“The Yemeni Armed Forces carried out a military operation, attacking Ben-Gurion Airport in the occupied Jaffa neighbourhood with a Palestine-2 hypersonic ballistic missile. The operation successfully reached its target,” Yahya Sarea, a spokesman for the movement’s armed forces, said. He did not specify whether the missile reached its target. Sarea added that the Houthis again attacked the US aircraft carrier Harry Truman and accompanying US ships in the Red Sea.
The Israel Defence Forces said the IAF shot down the Yemeni missile before it entered Israeli airspace, The Times of Israel reported. According to the Magen David Adom emergency medical service, doctors are treating several people in acute distress or injured on their way to the shelter. There is no information on casualties from falling debris.
On March 18, the Houthis launched a missile attack on the Israeli airbase of Nevatim. Sarea said the Yemeni Armed Forces will “expand the scope of its targets” in Palestine “in the coming hours and days” if “the aggression against Gaza does not stop.”
