Houthi fighters yesterday fired a missile at Israel‘s principal airport in retaliation for the country’s forces targeting a runway in Yemen.
The rebel group responded to Thursday’s strikes in Sanaa by hitting Ben Gurion Airport – which is only ten miles away from Tel Aviv.
Israeli missiles struck the airport in Yemen’s capital as the director-general of the World Health Organisation, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, boarded a flight.
According to the United Nations, three people were killed and dozens injured.
Israel said its strikes targeted the infrastructure of Yemen’s Houthi rebels in retaliation for repeated volleys of missiles fired by the rebels toward central Israel in recent days.
Officials in Israel said the Houthi missile at Ben Gurion was intercepted, yet 18 people suffered minor injuries as they rushed to a bomb shelter and flights were delayed for half an hour.
The rebels insisted the airport was struck, adding drones also targeted Tel Aviv and a ship in the Arabian Sea.
It comes as Israeli warplanes carried three airstrikes deep into eastern Lebanon on Friday for the second time since a ceasefire ended the war between Hezbollah and Israel a month ago, Lebanon’s state-run news agency said.
Houthi rebels in Yemen. The group launched a missile at Israel’s primary gateway, Ben Gurion airport, on Friday
Israeli missiles struck Sanaa airport, hitting the control tower, as director-general of the World Health Organisation , Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, boarded a flight
Smashed glass is seen at the airport in Yemen’s capital following Israeli air strikes on Thursday
No casualties were reported in the strikes on the Bekaa Valley town of Qousaya and the target remained unclear.
The Israeli military said its air force struck ‘infrastructure used to smuggle weapons via Syria’ to Hezbollah near the Janta crossing on the Syrian-Lebanese border, about 9 kilometers (5 miles) north of Qousaya.
On the outskirts of Tel Aviv in the town of Herzliya, a Palestinian from the West Bank stabbed to death 83-year-old Holocaust survivor Ludmila Lipovsky in Israel on Friday, police said.
A medic with Israel’s emergency services, Kobi Avriel, said first responders found the woman unconscious on the sidewalk outside a nursing home with stabbing wounds. She was rushed to hospital where she was sadly pronounced dead.