Rocket from Yemen strikes at Ben Gurion Airport

Minister announces massive counter -strikes

Huthi rocket meets Israel’s most important airport

Another rocket from Yemen has been fired on Israel. This time, however, Israel’s air defense came too late: Projectile parts hit Tel Aviv Airport, there are injuries.

According to the army, after a rocket fire from Yemen, the country’s most important airport was met in Tel Aviv. The Israeli army said on Sunday morning at the Ben Gurion Airport on Sunday morning.

AFP journalists reported several explosions at the airport and in Jerusalem. The unity for the bombing of the Israeli police wrote of a “ammunition splitter” that was taken in the area around the airport.

Air traffic has temporarily interrupted, but has now been resumed, Israeli media reported. The police said that the access roads to the airport were closed until further notice. According to the emergency services, David Adom stomachs were eight injuries, including one in the area of ​​the airport.

In several Israeli regions, the air talent sirens sounded, the air defense had tried according to army information to intercept a rocket shot out of Yemen.

The pro-Iranian Huthi militia confessed a short time after the attack on the attack. A “ballistic hyper -shall rocket” was used, it said in a message from which the broadcaster Al Jazera quoted. Already on Friday and Saturday, the Israeli army had intercept several rockets fired from Yemen, and here too the Huthis claimed the attacks.

The Huthi militia supported by Iran controls large parts of the Jemens. In addition to the Hisbollah in Lebanon and the Islamist Palestinian organization Hamas in Gaza, it belongs to the “axis of resistance” listed by Iran and directed against Israel and the USA. The declared goal is to annihilate Israel.

After the rocket attack, Israel threatened with a counter -strike that is said to be many times harder. “Anyone who attacks us will strike back seven times,” said Israeli Minister of Defense Israel Katz, apparently based on the Bible.

After the attack, individual airlines canceled flights to Ben-Gurion airport on Sunday, including Lufthansa, Austrian Airlines, Swiss and Air Europa.

Since the beginning of the war in the Gaza Strip, the Huthis has repeatedly attacked ships in the Red Sea and in the Gulf of Aden as well as destinations in Israel with drones and rockets – according to their own statements “out of solidarity with the Palestinians” in the Gaza strip.

The Hamas had triggered the war in the Gaza Strip with its major attack on Israel on October 7, 2023. After a two -month ceasefire in the Gaza Strip from January, the Huthis had temporarily stopped their own attacks on Israel. In response to Israel’s renewed attacks on Hamas goals in the Gaza Strip, however, the Yemeni militia announced further attacks on Israel.

Great Britain and the United States have repeatedly carried out air strikes on Huthi positions in Yemen since the beginning of 2024 to end the attacks on ships in the Red Sea. On March 15, the US Army started a new air offensive against the rebels.