Israel’s public broadcaster announced Wednesday that air traffic at Ben Gurion Airport, near Tel Aviv, was temporarily suspended after sirens were activated across the country due to a missile reportedly launched from Yemen.
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The broadcaster stated: “Air traffic at Ben Gurion Airport was temporarily halted before resuming after the missile was intercepted.”
Sirens were heard across wide areas in central Israel, including Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, and around the Dead Sea, according to the broadcaster.
The Israeli army confirmed in a statement: “Earlier this morning, the Air Force intercepted a missile launched from Yemen, which triggered alarms in several areas across the country.”
Meanwhile, Yemen’s Houthi-affiliated Al Masirah TV broadcast footage claiming to show the moment the Yemeni missile reached Israeli airspace.
The channel reported that “sirens were activated, millions of occupiers rushed to shelters, and traffic at Lod Airport (Ben Gurion) was suspended.”
It added that the Houthis are expected to issue an official statement later today regarding the operation.
This is the first missile launch by the Houthis toward Israel since Israeli airstrikes on Sunday targeted sites in the Yemeni capital, Sanaa.
On Monday, the Houthis announced that 10 civilians were killed and 92 injured as a result of Israeli airstrikes on Sanaa.
According to Al Masirah TV, the strikes targeted an oil company station on Al-Sittin Street in central Sanaa and the Haziz power station in the south of the city.
The Houthis have been carrying out attacks against Israel using missiles and drones, as well as targeting ships linked to or heading toward Israel. They say their operations come in response to the ongoing Israeli genocide in Gaza.
Since October 7, 2023, Israel, backed by the United States, has carried out a genocide in Gaza that has left 62,819 Palestinians martyred, 158,629 wounded—most of them children and women—over 9,000 missing persons, hundreds of thousands displaced, and a famine that has killed 303 Palestinians, including 117 children.
(Anadolu)
