New sparks lit up in the Middle East’s “gunpowder”, with the launch of the rocket Houthi On Sunday morning (4/5/25) that first hit the area of airport Ben Gurion, near Tel Aviv, but also with the order of the recruitment of thousands of Israeli reserves in view of the expansion of Israel’s landfill against Hamas in the Gaza Strip.
The rocket launched by the yesterday’s rebels fell close to the country’s main international airportsending a column of tobacco to the sky and causing panic to the passengers at the airport building.
“We have targeted Ben Gourion Airport with an ultrasonic ballistic missile that has successfully reached its target,” the Iranian Houthi -related liability said, taking responsibility for the rocket strike, as the Yemeni guerrillas have recently intensified by the Yemeni rebels. Gaza.
“Houthi’s attacks are coming from Iran,” was one of Benjamin Netanyahu’s reactions. His threats also turned against Iran: ‘Israel will respond to Houthi attack Against our main airport and, in time and place of our choice, to their Iranian bosses of terrorists, “the Israeli prime minister said in a post on X.
Initially, the Israeli army announced that a projectile or debris was “falling” near Ben Gourion Airport, noting that the incident is being investigated. He later confirmed that the rocket “hit the airport zone” where the impact opened a crater, just a few hundred meters from the airport, after “several attempts” to intercept.
A senior Israeli Police Commander, Yair Hezroni, showed a reporters a crater caused by the impact of the rocket, who, according to airport authorities, fell next to a road near a parking lot of the Terminal Station 3. It hurts us will be hit seven times more powerful. “
Sirens sounded all over Central Israel a few minutes before the impact, including the area near the big city of Tel Aviv. Reuters journalist at the airport heard sirens and saw passengers running in places designated as Safe Rooms.
The Israeli ambulance service said eight people were taken to the hospital, including a man in mild to medium condition with wounds in the extremities and two women in a mild state with head injuries.
The anti -aircraft defense systems have tried to intercept the rocket thrown by Yemen, more than 1,800 kilometers from the southern border of Israel. The results of his interrogation efforts are being investigated, the army said.
“This is the first time a rocket falls so close to the terminal and the landing corridors,” a spokesman for the Israeli airport authority told the French Agency.
Canceled falls
European and US airlines canceled flights for the next few days after the missile attack. Late in the afternoon Israeli airport authorities announced the repetition of air traffic after a short break.
Houthi Saira military spokesman said Israel’s main airport “is no longer safe for air travel”.
Houthi, who controlled parts of Yemen, began to target Israel and ships in the Red Sea in the late 2023, from the early days of the war between Hamas and Israel in the Gaza Strip. US President Donald Trump ordered a large scale in March to prevent Houthi to prevent them from targeting the Red Sea.
They prepare a great attack on Gaza for the destruction of “all Hamas infrastructure”
On the Gaza Front, in the Israeli Council of Ministers, scheduled for today (4/5/25) to make strategic decisions to approve a plan to extend the Gaza military attack.
In a statement, the Israeli army confirmed the call of “tens of thousands of reserves” for his attack on Gaza, announcing that his goal is to destroy “all Hamas infrastructures”
“This week, we are recruiting tens of thousands of reserves to strengthen and expand our business in Gaza,” Eyal Zamir, leader of the Armed Forces, said in a statement. “We intensify the pressure to restore (our hostages) and beat Hamas. We will act in other areas and destroy all its infrastructure, both above and below the ground. “
With the negotiations between Israel and Hamas frozen, the Israeli government yesterday (3/5/25) was fought against Qatar, an Emirates, who played a key role in the indirect negotiations for a ceasefire,
Doha reacted, stressing that he “strongly rejects the Israeli prime minister’s incendiary statements” and considering that they are opposed to “more fundamental rules of political and moral responsibility”, in a statement by the spokesman of the Foreign Ministry of Qatar.
After Israel ended on March 18th in the two months of war, which had a trigger for Hamas’ unprecedented raid in southern areas of Israeli territory on October 7, 2023, Prime Minister Netanyahu reiterates that only 58 will repeat the still holding, in life or not.
This explosive blend is complemented by the multiple raids that launches Israel against Syria during the previous week, as the Jewish state states that “ready to protect the villages of Drouz.
One of the blows, near the Presidential Palace of Damascus, brought the Syrian Presidency to speak of “dangerous escalation”.