DOHA, June 2. /TASS/. The Houthis from Yemen's rebel Ansar Allah movement have delivered a missile strike on Tel Aviv’s Ben Gurion Airport, the movement’s military spokesperson Yahya Saree said.
"The missile forces <…> conducted a military operation and delivered a strike on the Lod airport, known as Ben Gurion Airport in Israel, in the occupied Jaffa neighborhood with the use of a hypersonic ballistic missile," he told the Houthi-controlled Al Masirah television channel.
According to the Houthi spokesman, the airport suspended operations after the attack.
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said earlier in the day that it had intercepted a missile launched from Yemen.
Following the escalation of the conflict in the Gaza Strip in 2023, the Yemeni rebel movement Ansar Allah (the Houthis) wared Israel that it would shell its territory while barring ships associated with the Jewish state from passing through the waters of the Red Sea and the Bab el-Mandeb Strait until Tel Aviv ceased its military operation against Palestinian radical group Hamas in the embattled enclave. Since mid-November, dozens of civilian ships have been attacked by the Houthi in the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden.
After a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas came into effect in the Gaza Strip, the Yemeni rebels suspended strikes on Israel but following the breakdown of the ceasefire, the Houthis resumed attacks on ships associated with Israel and on targets in Israel’s territory.