Yemen’s Ansar Allah has declared an air blockade on Israel following a missile strike on Ben Gurion Airport—and vowed to escalate further after Israel responded with airstrikes on Sanaa’s civilian infrastructure. “The Israeli aggression will not deter Yemen from continuing its operations in support of the oppressed in Gaza,” senior Ansar Allah official Mohammad al-Bukhaiti said this morning following the bombing of Sanaa International Airport, power stations, and a cement factory.
Sunday’s missile strike near Terminal 3 of Ben Gurion Airport in Tel Aviv marked a strategic turning point—not simply for its reach or symbolism, but for the direct military and economic challenge it poses to Israel and its U.S.-backed defense systems.
The Yemeni Armed Forces, the military wing of Ansar Allah, launched a missile that traveled more than 2,000 kilometers before striking the entrance of Israel’s busiest airport. The projectile bypassed multiple layers of Israeli and U.S. air defenses, including the Arrow 2, Arrow 3, and THAAD systems. The missile created a 25-meter crater on impact, causing widespread disruption to air traffic, though no fatalities were reported.
Sunday’s missile strike near Terminal 3 of Ben Gurion Airport in Tel Aviv marked a strategic turning point—not simply for its reach or symbolism, but for the direct military and economic challenge it poses to Israel and its U.S.-backed defense systems.
The Yemeni Armed Forces, the military wing of Ansar Allah, launched a missile that traveled more than 2,000 kilometers before striking the entrance of Israel’s busiest airport. The projectile bypassed multiple layers of Israeli and U.S. air defenses, including the Arrow 2, Arrow 3, and THAAD systems. The missile created a 25-meter crater on impact, causing widespread disruption to air traffic, though no fatalities were reported.
The failure to intercept the missile has caused great embarrassment to the Israeli military. Yet dealt a greater blow to the US Trump administration’s ongoing assault on Yemen, which the American President had claimed back in March to have “decimated” Ansarallah and its capabilities.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu swiftly vowed retaliation, writing on X, “Israel will respond to the Houthi attack against our main airport AND, at a time and place of our choosing, to their Iranian terror masters,” claiming that Yemen’s attacks “emanate from Iran”.
Multiple Israeli and American officials have since accused Iran of directing the strike, a charge Tehran denies. The timing coincides with renewed nuclear negotiations involving U.S. President Donald Trump and came just hours before Iran publicly unveiled its Qassem Basir ballistic missile—a 1,200-kilometer-range weapon developed specifically to bypass Israeli defenses
Iran’s Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, along with a number of regional experts, suggested that Israel’s escalation is a calculated effort to derail those talks, placing the region on edge, where even a spark between Yemen and Israel could ignite into a broader war.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu swiftly vowed retaliation, writing on X, “Israel will respond to the Houthi attack against our main airport AND, at a time and place of our choosing, to their Iranian terror masters,” claiming that Yemen’s attacks “emanate from Iran”.
Multiple Israeli and American officials have since accused Iran of directing the strike, a charge Tehran denies. The timing coincides with renewed nuclear negotiations involving U.S. President Donald Trump and came just hours before Iran publicly unveiled its Qassem Basir ballistic missile—a 1,200-kilometer-range weapon developed specifically to bypass Israeli defenses
Iran’s Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, along with a number of regional experts, suggested that Israel’s escalation is a calculated effort to derail those talks, placing the region on edge, where even a spark between Yemen and Israel could ignite into a broader war.
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