Revealed on: Aug 02, 2025 01:09 am IST
The Huthis focused Israel’s Ben Gurion airport “utilizing a ‘Palestine 2’ hypersonic ballistic missile”.
The Israeli army stated it intercepted a missile fired from Yemen on Friday, which the Iran-backed Huthi rebels stated they’d launched.
“Following the sirens that sounded a short time in the past in a number of areas in Israel, a missile that was launched from Yemen was intercepted,” the Israeli army stated.
The Huthis focused Israel’s Ben Gurion airport “utilizing a ‘Palestine 2’ hypersonic ballistic missile”, their army spokesman Yahya Saree stated in a video assertion.
The rebels have launched repeated missile and drone assaults towards Israel since their Palestinian ally Hamas’s October 2023 assault on Israel sparked the Gaza warfare.
The Huthis, who say they’re appearing in assist of the Palestinians, paused their assaults throughout a two-month ceasefire in Gaza that led to March, however renewed them after Israel resumed main operations.
Israel has carried out a number of retaliatory strikes in Yemen, focusing on Huthi-held ports and the airport within the rebel-held capital Sanaa.
