Yemen’s missile attack on occupied territories

On Friday, May 9, the Israeli military announced, “We detected a missile launched from Yemen and are attempting to intercept it.” Air raid sirens were triggered due to the missile launch from Yemen.

According to Yedioth Ahronoth, flights to and from Ben Gurion Airport were suspended.

Israeli media sources claimed that the missile launched from Yemen was intercepted and destroyed, causing several explosions in the Jerusalem area and east of Tel Aviv.

The US THAAD system was used to intercept the missile launched from Yemen.

The Israeli emergency services reported that an Israeli woman was injured while heading to a shelter following the missile launch from Yemen.

Israel Hayom reported that thousands of people in Israel sought shelter after the missile was fired from Yemen toward Israel.

According to Israel’s Channel 14, the US THAAD system failed for the second time in a week to intercept a missile launched from Yemen. Israel’s Arrow missile defense system intercepted and destroyed a missile fired from Yemen shortly before.

Yedioth Ahronoth stated that air raid sirens sounded in over 25 Israeli cities and towns around Tel Aviv.

Yemen’s renewed warning to airlines

In a video statement, the spokesperson for Yemen’s Armed Forces announced that their forces targeted Ben Gurion Airport in the Zionist regime with a hypersonic ballistic missile and Tel Aviv with a drone. Brigadier General Yahya Saree stated in the statement: “In support of the oppressed Palestinian people and their fighters, in response to the Zionist enemy’s genocidal crimes against our brothers in the Gaza Strip, and as part of implementing the decision to impose an air blockade on the criminal Zionist regime, the missile unit of Yemen’s Armed Forces, in a special military operation, targeted ‘Lod’ Airport—known in Israel as Ben Gurion Airport in the occupied Yaffa region—with a hypersonic ballistic missile. By God’s grace, the missile successfully hit its target, and the enemy’s air defense systems failed to intercept it, causing millions of Zionist occupiers to rush to shelters and halting air traffic at the airport for about an hour.”

Yahya Saree added: “Additionally, the drone unit of Yemen’s Armed Forces, in a military operation using a ‘Yaffa’ drone, targeted a vital Israeli enemy target in the occupied Yaffa region (Tel Aviv).”

He noted: “The Armed Forces once again warn companies that have not yet complied with the prohibition decision, urging them to immediately halt their flights to occupied Palestine, as other companies have done.”

The spokesperson for Yemen’s Armed Forces emphasized: “The decision to ban air navigation to airports in occupied Palestine, as well as the prohibition of Israeli ships passing through the Red Sea and Arabian Sea, in addition to support operations, will continue until the aggression on Gaza stops and the blockade is lifted.”

Israelis’ disappointment

Following the missile attack by Yemen’s Ansarullah on Friday, Zionists reacted and expressed disappointment with US President Donald Trump’s decision to negotiate with Yemen’s Ansarullah.

In this regard, Israeli journalist Doron Kadosh wrote: “This is the new reality we’ve reached after President Trump’s decision to halt US operations in Yemen: From now on, every missile fired at Israel is solely Israel’s problem. Unlike the past two months, there are no longer nightly American strikes in Yemen. Israel is left alone to face the Yemeni threat and is now compelled to adopt an independent policy in attacks, responses, and targeting the Houthi movement in Yemen, which is 2,000 kilometers away from us.”

Amit Stein, another Zionist journalist, reacting to the Ansarullah attack, wrote: “We are now facing a new situation. Trump said a few days ago: If the Houthis fire at Israel, we’ll discuss it. But it can be safely assumed that he will not attack Yemen again. In other words: The Yemeni attacks are Israel’s problem, not America’s, and after numerous threats and promises this week—Israel must decide whether and how to respond.”

Hillel Bitton Rosen, an Israeli security journalist, claimed that the THAAD system failed to intercept the missile, marking the second time in a week that THAAD could not intercept a Yemeni missile.

Yair Lapid, leader of the opposition to Netanyahu’s government, stated: “The government cannot wait for a collective catastrophe due to Yemen’s missiles or allow the economy to be further paralyzed. Netanyahu must set aside fear and hesitation and intensify attacks on infrastructure and missile launch sites in Yemen.”

Avigdor Lieberman, former Israeli war minister, also reacted to the Yemeni attack, writing: “This situation is truly unbelievable. One year and seven months into the war, and every day millions of Israelis are running to shelters.”

Concurrently with the attack, Israeli army radio reported that the German company Lufthansa decided to extend the suspension of its flights to Tel Aviv until May 18. This decision was made due to ongoing security concerns in the occupied territories.