A spokesman for the Rebels supported by Iran Jahja Sarea also called international airlines to “take into account” traffic statement and suspend flights to “enemy airports” in Israel.
The Huti rocket hit the field at one of the technical roads at Ben Gurion's airport. Several people were slightly injured. There were no significant damage. The Israeli armed forces have announced that several attempts to intercep the missile have been made, and the aviation is investigating which to explain why the rocket could not be shot down.
Air traffic was briefly suspended, but after less than an hour it was restored. However, most of the foreign airlines canceled the cruises to Ben Gurion's airport for a few days. Among them, LOT PLL and Hungarian Wizzair, which support connections with Warsaw and Krakow. The flight canceled Sunday cruises, Wizzair suspended flights to Tuesday. Israeli airlines, including flying to Warsaw and Krakow El Al, operate normally.
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Supported by Iran Huti since the outbreak of the war in the Gaza Zone, they attack Israel with rockets and drones. Most shells fired from Yemen are shot down without causing victims and damage.
The Huti, large areas of Yemen, since autumn 2023, they also conducted over 100 attacks on trading ships in the Red Sea and the Gulf of Adeń, declaring that in this way they support the fight of Hamas with Israel.
From the end of 2023, the US is managing a coalition whose task is to defend the freedom of navigation in this region. In mid -March this year. However, President Donald Trump announced a new offensive against Huti, under which raids were intensified and expanded. Since then, the United States has attacked over 1000 goals in Yemen, killing “hundreds of fighters” – said the army.
The Prime Minister of Israel Binjamin Netanyahu stated on Sunday that his country will respond to the attack on Ben Gurion's airport “in the right time and place.” He added that Iran, who he described as a “terrorist principal” Huti, must also take revenge. Earlier, Netanyahu said that Israel would join the American campaign against the Yemenian rebels.
Recognized by the West as a terrorist organization, Huti are one of the parties that has been underway since 2014 in the Yemen. In the conflict and the reason for the accompanying humanitarian crisis, according to UN estimates – nearly 400,000 people. From the beginning of the 2000, the motto of the Huti movement is the slogan “God is great, death of America, death to Israel, curse to Jews, victory to Islam.”
