Tel Aviv, May 4 (RHC)-- Yemen’s Armed Forces have hit the Ben Gurion Airport near Tel Aviv after several attempts by the Israeli military to intercept it failed. The missile bypassed four layers of air defense and landed in the heart of Ben Gurion Airport on Sunday, with both Arrow and THAAD systems failing to intercept the advanced missile.
Israeli daily Yedioth Aharonot, citing emergency services, said at least seven people were injured in the attack. Israeli media published footage from the moment when a ballistic missile launched from Yemen made a “direct impact” in the main airport.
Reports said the warhead caused a massive wave of explosions and a shockwave heard up to 50 km away. Multiple buildings near Ben Gurion Airport, including the Beit Rivka Institute, were also damaged by the force of the explosion.
“All incoming and outgoing flights at Ben Gurion Airport as well as train service in the area have been halted,” the reports said.
Ben Gurion ‘no longer safe’
Yahya Saree, the spokesman for Yemen’s Armed Forces, said in a televised statement that the military operation against the key Israeli airport was conducted with a hypersonic ballistic missile and “hit its target successfully.”
The spokesman pointed out that the results of the operation were the failure of the American and Israeli interceptor systems to repel the projectile, the escape of more than three million Zionists to shelters, and the complete cessation of airport traffic for more than an hour.
Stressing that the operation was in support of the oppressed Palestinian people and their fighters in Gaza, Saree warned in his statement that Ben Gurion is “no longer safe” for air navigation.
“Yemen — its people, leadership, and army — will, with Allah’s help, continue to stand firm and steadfast in the face of American aggression, never abandoning its religious, moral, and humanitarian duty toward the oppressed Palestinian people, regardless of the consequences, until the aggression on Gaza ceases and the siege is lifted,” the spokesman added.
