The Houthis have launched drone strikes on targets in Israel, including Ben Gurion Airport in Tel Aviv and Ramon Airport near Eilat, according to rebel military spokesman Yahya Sariyah.
“The Yemeni armed forces' drone units are conducting military operations for the second day in a row“, Sariyah said, his address broadcast by the rebel-controlled Al-Masirah TV channel.
The operation, according to Ansar Allah's military spokesman, “successfully achieved its objectives“. Sariyah did not specify which target was attacked in the town of Dimona, located in the Negev desert. A nuclear research center is located near this city.
The Israeli army, for its part, announced that it had intercepted a drone directed from Yemen towards Israeli territory after air raid sirens were activated near the Red Sea port city of Eilat, Reuters reported, quoted by BTA.
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) reported that sirens were activated in the Negev Desert region, also in southern Israel, where a drone also entered. It was not specified what happened to this unmanned aerial vehicle.
Ramon Airport resumed operations after being briefly closed yesterday. The Houthis announced in a statement today that they had targeted Ramon Airport, among other locations, with drones.
After the escalation of the conflict in the Gaza Strip in 2023, the Houthis warned that they would shell Israeli territory and prevent ships associated with the Jewish state from passing through the Red Sea and the Bab el-Mandeb Strait. The attacks stopped after a ceasefire was imposed in the Palestinian enclave in mid-January this year, but after the ceasefire collapsed in early March, the rebels announced a resumption of attacks on Israeli ships in the Red Sea, and then resumed attacking targets in the Jewish state. In response, Israel repeatedly struck Houthi infrastructure, including Sanaa airport and Red Sea ports.