A missile hit Ben Gurion International Airport, in the Tel Aviv region, after a shot from Yemen, causing a brief interruption of air traffic and threats of strong reprisals by Israel.
The shot was claimed by the Hutis rebels of Yemen, allies of the Palestinian Movement Hamás, who have attacked Israel with missiles and drones since the beginning of the Gaza war.
“Ben Gurion airport was attacked with a hypersonic ballistic missile that reached its success,” the hutis indicated in a statement released by television to Masirah.
The air alert sirens sounded in several regions of Israel on Sunday morning, the army announced in a statement.
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The anti -aircraft defense tried to intercept the missile from Yemen, he said.
AFP journalists heard explosions in the regions of Jerusalem and the airport, in the center of Israel.
“You can see the area just behind us: there has formed a crater of several tens of meters wide and also several tens of meters deep,” said police chief of the central region of Israel, Yair Hezroni, in a video with the airport control tower in the background.
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The projectile drop briefly interrupted the take -off and aircraft landings, but the airport already works normally, the airport authority said.
Police tries to determine whether it is a Yemenite missile or an Israeli air defense missile.
The Israeli Minister of Defense, Israel Katz, threatened to respond to that shot with a blow “seven times stronger.”
Israel has already made several attacks against hutis goals in Yemen.
“The one who beats us will be hit seven times stronger,” Katz said in a brief statement.
The hutis, backed by Iran, have previously claimed the authorship of shots against the airport.
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On Friday they fired two missiles against Israel, several hours apart, but the Israeli army claimed to have intercepted them.
military spokesman Hutí Yahya Saree said in a video that the group had attacked a military installation in the center of Israel with “a Palestinian hypersonic missile 2”.
The Houthi rebels control large areas of a Yemen devastated by the war, including the capital, Saná, more than 1,800 km from the southern border of Israel.
Since the beginning of the war in the Gaza Strip, triggered by the attack of the Islamist movement Hamas in Israeli territory on October 7, 2023, the hutis launch attacks with missiles and drones against Israel in solidarity with the Palestinians.
The hutis also attack ships considered linked to Israel in the Red Sea, an essential area for world maritime traffic.
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After Israel broke on March 18 a fragile truce of two months in the Gaza Strip, the Hutíes resumed attacks against Israel.
The United States, under the presidency of Joe Biden, had begun to hit Huti positions in January 2024 to force them to stop shooting.
The campaign intensified after Donald Trump’s return to the White House in January.
At the end of April, the Pentagon said that he had attacked more than 800 goals in Yemen since mid -March, killing hundreds of “fighters” already several leaders.
