The Israeli army announced that it intercepts a rocket launched by the Yemenhaving previously triggered the sirens in Jerusalem and in the central Israel.
«Following the sirens that sounded recently in several areas of Israel, a rocket launched by Yemen was intercepted“, The army said in a statement.
Is The third time in three days when the army announces such a halt.
Following the start of the war in Gaza, which broke out after an unprecedented attack by the Palestinian Islamist Movement against Israel on October 7, 2023, Yemen’s Houthi rebels carried out dozens of attacks by rockets and unmanned aircraft. Palestinians.
On May 4, a Houthi rocket for the first time hit the perimeter of Ben Guron International Airport, an attack that led most foreign airlines serving Tel Aviv to suspend their flights.
In retaliation for these attacks, the Israeli army has been hit by a lot of strikes in recent months against Houthi’s targets in Yemen, where it launched Sanaai Airport and bombed power plants and cement plants last week.
For their part, the US has, with Oman mediation, joined a truce agreement with Houthi, ending weeks of US aircraft as retaliation for the rocket attacks of the rebels and their attacks on ships on Yemen.