Yemen strikes Israel’s Ben Gurion airport with ballistic missile

Iran Press TV

Sunday, 04 May 2025 7:17 AM

Yemen’s Armed Forces have hit the Ben Gurion Airport near Tel Aviv after several attempts by the Israeli military to intercept it failed.

The missile bypassed four layers of air defense and landed in the heart of Ben Gurion Airport on Sunday, with both Arrow and THAAD systems failing to intercept the advanced missile.

Israeli daily Yedioth Aharonot, citing emergency services, said at least seven people were injured in the attack.

Israeli media published footage from the moment when a ballistic missile launched from Yemen made a “direct impact” in the main airport.

Reports said the warhead caused a massive wave of explosions and a shockwave heard up to 50 km away.

Multiple buildings near Ben Gurion Airport, including the Beit Rivka Institute, were also damaged by the force of the explosion.

“All incoming and outgoing flights at Ben Gurion Airport as well as train service in the area have been halted,” the reports said.

Ben Gurion ‘no longer safe’

Yahya Saree, the spokesman for Yemen’s Armed Forces, said in a televised statement that the military operation against the key Israeli airport was conducted with a hypersonic ballistic missile and “hit its target successfully.”

The spokesman pointed out that the results of the operation were the failure of the American and Israeli interceptor systems to repel the projectile, the escape of more than three million Zionists to shelters, and the complete cessation of airport traffic for more than an hour.

Stressing that the operation was in support of the oppressed Palestinian people and their fighters in Gaza, Saree warned in his statement that Ben Gurion is “no longer safe” for air navigation.

“Yemen — its people, leadership, and army — will, with Allah’s help, continue to stand firm and steadfast in the face of American aggression, never abandoning its religious, moral, and humanitarian duty toward the oppressed Palestinian people, regardless of the consequences, until the aggression on Gaza ceases and the siege is lifted,” the spokesman added.

‘You are from us, and we are from you’

Abu Obeida, the spokesman for al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Palestinian resistance movement Hamas, praised on Sunday the Yemeni military’s ballistic launch on the Ben Gurion airport.

“Glory to Yemen, Palestine’s counterpart, as it continues to challenge the most brutal forces of oppression and refuses to submit or be defeated despite the aggression it is subjected to,” Obeida said.

“Yemen escalates its attacks on the heart of the deformed Zionist entity, outperforming the most advanced systems in the world to accurately hit their targets,” he added.

“May God accept your sacrifices. You are from us, and we are from you.”

The Palestinian Resistance Committees also lauded the missile attack by Yemeni forces on the key airport at the Israeli-occupied territories.

The coalition said in a statement that the strikes undermined the “false security illusion” that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu seeks to promote.

The committees said the attack proved “the failure of the American aggression on dear Yemen,” and emphasized that, “The Yemeni courage and creativity established a stage to reveal the inability of the Zionist entity and the American enemy.”

The coalition also paid tribute to the Yemeni people and their armed forces as they “continue to support our people and resist them despite the high prices.”