DUBAI, March 20. /TASS/. The Houthis from Yemen's rebel Ansar Allah movement have delivered a strike on Tel Aviv’s Ben Gurion Airport with a "hypersonic ballistic missile," the movement’s military spokesperson Yahya Sarea said.
"The Yemeni armed forces’ missile troops conducted a military operation and attacked Ben Gurion Airport in the occupied Jaffa neighborhood with the use of a Palestine-2 hypersonic ballistic missile," he told the Houthi-controlled Al Masirah television channel.
The Israel Defense Forces said earlier that a missile launched from the Yemeni territory had been intercepted before it reached Israel’s airspace.
Following the escalation of the conflict in the Gaza Strip, the Yemeni rebel movement Ansar Allah (the Houthis) wared Israel that it would shell its territory while barring ships associated with the Jewish state from passing through the waters of the Red Sea and the Bab el-Mandeb Strait until Tel Aviv ceased its military operation against Palestinian radical group Hamas in the embattled enclave. Since mid-November, dozens of civilian ships have been attacked by the Houthi in the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden.
After a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas came into effect in the Gaza Strip, the Yemeni rebels suspended strikes on Israel but following the breakdown of the ceasefire, the Houthis resumed attacks on ships associated with Israel.