The Houthis targeted Ben Gurion International Airport “using a ‘Palestine 2’ hypersonic ballistic missile,” according to military spokesman Yarya Saree, who had hours earlier claimed a similar attack.
The Israeli army said Tuesday it had intercepted a missile fired from Yemen, a day after Israel carried out air strikes on its Houthi-held port of Hodeida.
“Following the sirens that sounded a short while ago in several areas in Israel, a missile launched from Yemen was intercepted by the IAF,” the Israeli military reported on Telegram.
IT WAS a short-lived surrender. Earlier this year America carried out more than 1,000 strikes against the Houthis, an Iranian-backed militia in Yemen. The group had kept up a year-long series of attacks on commercial ships in the Red Sea, ostensibly to protest against Israel’s ongoing war in Gaza. American bombing was meant to dissuade them from future mayhem. When Donald Trump unexpectedly announced a ceasefire on May 6th, he said the Houthis had agreed to just that: “They have capitulated,” the president said. “They say they will not be blowing up ships anymore.”
