The Yemeni army has launched six ballistic missile attacks on Israel since Tel Aviv renewed the war against Gaza
News Desk - The Cradle
“In support of the oppressed Palestinian people and their dear and valiant resistance, the missile force targeted Ben Gurion Airport in the occupied Jaffa area with two ballistic missiles, one of the Zulfiqar-type and the other a hypersonic Palestine-2 missile. The operation successfully achieved its goal,” the YAF said.
The operation was carried out on Monday evening. Sirens blared in several areas, including Tel Aviv and occupied Jerusalem.
The Israeli army said it intercepted one missile before it crossed into Israeli airspace. Shrapnel and missile fragments landed in Beit Shemesh just outside of Jerusalem.
The Yemeni statement also said the YAF “targeted a number of [US] enemy warships in the Red Sea, in addition to the US aircraft carrier Truman, with a number of ballistic and cruise missiles and drones in a clash, the second within 24 hours.”
“The clash lasted for several hours, during which an air attack that the enemy was preparing to carry out against our country was thwarted,” it added.
Hours before the statement was released, at least eight US airstrikes targeted the vicinity of the city of Saada north of the capital, Sanaa. Deaths and injuries were reported.
The US renewed its campaign of airstrikes on Yemen earlier this month in response to the Yemeni decision to reimpose a ban on Israeli shipping in the Red Sea, Bab al-Mandab Strait, and the Gulf of Aden, coming after Israel’s obstruction of the ceasefire in Gaza and its blocking of aid to the strip.
On 15 January, US airstrikes on Sanaa killed at least 51 and injured around 100.
US National Security Advisor Mike Waltz claimed on Sunday that US attacks on Yemen have killed key leaders of the Ansarallah movement, which is merged with the YAF. “We've hit their headquarters. We’ve hit communications nodes, weapons factories, and even some of their over-the-water drone production facilities,” Waltz added.
Since Israel renewed its war on Gaza on 18 March, killing over 700 people in a few days, the YAF has launched six ballistic missile attacks targeting Tel Aviv.
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