IDF shoots down missile fired from Yemen at Tel Aviv

Take-offs and landings were briefly suspended at Tel Aviv’s Ben-Gurion International Airport due to the Yemeni threat.

By JNS

Millions of Israelis were sent running for shelters on Monday evening as Iranian-backed Houthi terrorists fired a missile at the densely populated Tel Aviv region, the Israel Defense Forces said.

“Following alerts that were activated in several areas in the center of the country, the Air Force successfully intercepted a surface-to-surface missile launched from Yemen,” the IDF posted on X.

The missile was intercepted outside of Israel’s borders.

Take-offs and landings were briefly suspended at Tel Aviv’s Ben-Gurion International Airport due to the Yemeni threat.

The missile attack came as the Jewish state marked one year since the Hamas-led Oct. 7 cross-border massacre in which some 1,200 people, primarily Jewish civilians, were murdered, thousands were wounded and 251 were taken hostage to the Gaza Strip.

On Sunday, Houthi leader Abdul Malik al-Houthi in a televised address said that the Iranian-backed terrorist proxies throughout the region have “reached a point of inevitable confrontation” with Israel.

“Despite the scale of Israeli aggression, the inevitability of the enemy’s downfall is a certainty, grounded in religious and historical principles that must eventually be fulfilled,” the Yemeni terrorist claimed, according to a translation by Lebanon’s Al Mayadeen TV channel.

Yemen’s Houthi militia, an Iranian proxy force, has launched numerous attacks on Israel in support of Hamas in the wake of the Oct. 7, 2023, massacre.

Israel’s Arrow defense system intercepted a surface-to-surface ballistic missile fired from Yemen on Sept. 27, according to the IDF.

On Sept. 15, Israeli air defenses intercepted fragments of a surface-to-surface missile fired from Yemen that exploded over central Israel.

In July, a Houthi suicide drone killed a civilian in central Tel Aviv, in response to which Israel struck Yemen’s Hodeidah Port in a major attack.

Late last month, the Israeli Air Force carried out dozens of strikes in the area of Hodeidah. Jerusalem said the targets included “power plants and a seaport, which were used by the Houthis to transfer Iranian weapons to the region, in addition to military supplies and oil.”