The Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahuhe launched Duras this Sunday Threats against the Hutis rebels of Yemen and against Iranafter A missile will impact on the immediate vicinity of Ben Gurion Airportmain air terminal of Israel. The attack, which managed to impact due to a Defect defectlet Six injured and forced to suspend flights from several airlines.
According to the emergency service Stomach David Adom (MDA), four people were injured by the burst and others two when addressing shelters; None of gravity. Israel’s defense forces confirmed that The missile was released from Yemenunder the control of the hutis, who have support from Iran. It is the first attack that reaches directly The airport area from the beginning of the war in Gaza, more than a year and a half ago.
Images disseminated by Israeli media show a smoke column near the terminal and capture of security cameras that record the time of impact. “After the sound of sirens in several areas of Israel, several were made attempts to intercept A missile launched from Yemen. A drop in the Ben Gurion airport area was detected. The incident is under investigation“The Israeli army initially reported.
Since the war began in Gaza, in October 2023, Tel Aviv airport has been multiple attacks of Hamas, Hezbollah and the hutis, although until now none had directly reached their facilities. The impact of this Sunday interrupted air operations For about an hour.
Despite having one of the anti -aircraft systems most advanced in the worldIsrael has registered some Failures In recent months. Last December, A drone released from Yemen managed to impact In a building in Tel Aviv without the alarms being activated. After an initial investigation, the Israeli army concluded that The missile was not intercepted due to a technical failure In the interceptor. “The detection and alert systems worked properly. The problem was technical in the interceptor missile,” the army said.
A photographer of AFP reported that the missile fell near the parking area of Terminal 3the main airport, some one hundred meters of the track. The police chief of the central region of Israel, Yair Hezronshowed in a video the crater of “several tens of meters wide and depth.” MDA reported that Eight people They were transferred to the hospitals Shamir-Assaf Harofeh y Sheba-Tel Hashomertwo of them for anxiety attacks. No damage to airport infrastructure was reported. “It is the first time that a missile falls so close to the terminal and landing clues,” said a spokesman for the airport authority.
The attack occurred a few hours before the Israeli army announced the Call of “tens of thousands of reservists” to intensify his offensive in Gaza, with the aim of destroy Hamas infrastructure.
“Many blows”
In a video broadcast on his social networks, Netanyahu announced his intention to respond fire with fire. “Israel has already acted against this group and will do it again. It will not be a single blow, but many”, Said the president.
Then, in his X account, Netanyahu He aligned again With the US president, Donald Trumpy He held Iran For the attack. “President Trump is right! Hutis attacks come from Iran. Israel will respond to the attack against our main airport and, at the time and place we choose, Also to your Iranian masters”, Said the Israeli.
Netanyahu’s message responded to a Trump post in March 2025, who in Truth Social accused Iran of “dictating every movement” of the hutíes and to provide them weapons and money. “Each shot released by the hutis will be considered as if I had shot itand this country will be responsible and will suffer the consequences, ”Trump had warned.
Netanyahu insisted that Israel will attack “at the time and place chosen”, And said that The United States “is also acting against them in coordination with Israel”. “It’s not an explosion and that’s it. There will be more. It’s part of war,” he said.
The Minister of Defense, Israel Katzalso promised a blunt answer to bombardment. “Who hurts us will receive seven times more”Said Israeli in front of the media, alluding to a Symbolic proportion taken from the Hebrew Bible.
Claim
The military spokesman of the hutis, Yahya sareasaid the attack was part of “a military operation The objective of Ben Gurion airport, in the busy Yafa (Tel Aviv), with a Hypersonic ballistic missile“And that the impact was”successful”.
In a statement released by the chain al masirahaligned with the insurgency, the rebels affirmed that The operation demonstrated the “failure” of defense systems Americans and Israelis, caused the “escape from more than three million Zionists”Towards shelters and forced the total closure of the airport for more than an hour.
“The Zionist enemy told him: the time in which you were walking arrogantly through the heavens of the Arab countries, bombarding where you would want to fear the consequences, it has come time. The time has come for you to receive painful blows In the most important and fortified places, and that is not difficult for God, “wrote the Sarea spokesman in his profile in X.
Sarea also claimed a drone attack against the city of Ashkelonsouth of Tel Aviv, and reaffirmed the group’s commitment to the Palestinian people. “We will remain firm in the face of American and Israeli aggressionand we will not abandon our moral and religious responsibility for Palestine, ”he said.
In addition, he warned International airlines that Israel’s airport “It is no longer a safe place”Several airlines suspended their flights to Tel Aviv after the attack. Lufthansa, Air France, Air India, British Airways and other companies such as Air Europa, Wizz Air, your Airways, Austrian Airlines, Brussels Airlines, United, Air Canada and Swiss canceled their operations this Sunday and began reprogramming for the next week.
The insurgents, who claim to act in solidarity with the Palestinians, also usually attack ships that consider Israel linked to the Red Sea, a key zone for world maritime traffic.
For its part, the Palestinian Movement Hamas and the Islamic jihad They celebrated the attack. Al Qassam Brigades spokesman, Hamas’ armed arm, Abu Obeidahe congratulated the hutis for their action. “Gloria A Yemen, equal to Palestine, who continues to challenge the most brutal oppression forces and refuses to submit or be defeated despite the aggression to which she is subjected,” Obeida said in a statement released by the Islamist organization in his Telegram channel.
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