A Missile Fired By Yemen's Rebels Lands In Israel And Triggers Sirens At International Airport | rssama.com

JERUSALEM (AP) — A rocket fired by Yemen’s Iran-backed rebels landed successful an unfastened area successful cardinal Israel early Sunday and triggered aerial ambush sirens astatine its world airport, successful nan latest reverberation from the astir yearlong warfare successful Gaza. Israel hinted that it would respond militarily.

There were nary reports of casualties aliases awesome damage, but Israeli media aired footage showing group racing to shelters successful Ben Gurion International Airport. The airdrome authority said it resumed normal operations soon thereafter.

A occurrence could beryllium seen successful a agrarian area of cardinal Israel, and section media showed images of what appeared to beryllium a part from an interceptor that landed connected an escalator successful a train position successful nan cardinal municipality of Modiin.

The Israeli subject said it made respective attempts to intercept nan rocket utilizing its multitiered aerial defenses but had not yet wished whether immoderate had been successful. It said nan rocket appeared to person fragmented midair, and that nan incident is still nether review. The subject said nan sound of explosions successful nan area came from interceptors.

The Yemeni rebels, known arsenic Houthis, person many times fired drones and missiles toward Israel since nan commencement of nan warfare successful Gaza betwixt Israel and nan Palestinian militant group Hamas, but astir each of them person been intercepted complete nan Red Sea.

In July, an Iranian-made drone launched by nan Houthis struck Tel Aviv, sidesplitting 1 personification and wounding 10 others. Israel responded pinch a activity of airstrikes connected Houthi-held areas of Yemen, including nan larboard metropolis of Hodeidah, a Houthi stronghold.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hinted astatine a akin consequence successful remarks astatine a Cabinet gathering aft Sunday’s attack.

“The Houthis should person known by now that we nonstop a dense value for immoderate effort to harm us,” he said. “Anyone who needs a reminder is invited to sojourn nan larboard of Hodeidah.”

Brig. Gen. Yahya Saree, a subject spokesperson for nan rebels, said they fired a ballistic rocket targeting “a subject target” successful Jaffa, which is portion of Tel Aviv.

Hashim Sharaf al-Din, a spokesperson for nan Houthi-run government, said Yemenis will observe nan day of Islam’s Prophet Muhammad while “the Israelis will person to beryllium successful shelters.” Another elder Houthi official, Hezam al-Asad, posted a taunting connection successful Hebrew connected nan societal media level X.

The Houthis person besides many times attacked commercialized shipping successful nan Red Sea, successful what nan rebels represent arsenic a blockade connected Israel successful support of nan Palestinians. Most of nan targeted ships person nary relationship to Israel.

The warfare successful Gaza, which began pinch Hamas’ Oct. 7 onslaught into confederate Israel, has rippled crossed nan region, pinch Iran and allied militant groups attacking Israeli and U.S. targets and drafting retaliatory strikes from Israel and its Western allies. On respective occasions, nan strikes and counterstrikes have threatened to trigger a wider conflict.

International carriers person canceled flights into and retired of Israel connected a number of occasions since nan commencement of nan war, adding to nan war’s economical toll connected nan country.

Iran supports militant groups crossed nan region, including Hamas, nan Houthis and Lebanon’s Hezbollah, its astir powerful ally, which has traded occurrence pinch Israel connected a near-daily ground since nan warfare successful Gaza began. Iran and its friends opportunity they are acting successful solidarity pinch nan Palestinians.

The subject said astir 40 projectiles were fired from Lebanon early Sunday, pinch astir intercepted aliases falling successful unfastened areas.

In a abstracted incident, Israeli forces dropped leaflets complete nan Lebanese separator municipality of al-Wazzani calling connected residents to evacuate. The subject later said location were nary specified removal orders, and that a section commandant had acted without nan support of his superiors. It said nan incident was nether investigation.

It was not clear if anyone had evacuated nan town, aliases if immoderate connection had been conveyed to residents that nan leaflets were dropped successful error.

The strikes on nan Israel-Lebanon separator person displaced tens of thousands of group connected some sides. Israel has many times threatened to motorboat a wider subject cognition against Hezbollah to guarantee its citizens tin return to their homes.

“The position quo will not continue,” Netanyahu said astatine nan Cabinet meeting. “This requires a alteration successful nan equilibrium of powerfulness connected our bluish border. We will do everything basal to return our residents safely to their homes.”

Hezbollah has said it would halt its attacks if location is simply a cease-fire successful Gaza. The United States and Arab mediators Egypt and Qatar person spent overmuch of this twelvemonth trying to agent a truce and nan merchandise of scores of hostages held by Hamas, but nan talks person many times bogged down.

In caller weeks, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has insisted connected lasting Israeli power complete the Gaza broadside of nan separator pinch Egypt, which Israeli forces captured successful May. He has said Hamas utilized a web of tunnels beneath nan separator to import arms, allegations denied by Egypt, which on pinch Hamas is opposed to immoderate lasting Israeli beingness there.

An Israeli subject charismatic said precocious Saturday that of nan dozens of tunnels discovered on nan border, only 9 entered Egypt, and each were recovered to person been sealed off. The official, who said connected information of anonymity to talk delicate intelligence, said it was not clear erstwhile nan tunnels were sealed.

The find appeared to weaken Netanyahu’s statement that Israel needs to support open-ended power of nan corridor to forestall cross-border smuggling.

Egypt has said it sealed disconnected nan tunnels connected its broadside of nan separator years ago, successful portion by creating its ain subject buffer area on nan frontier.

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Melzer reported from Nahariya, Israel. Associated Press writers Samy Magdy successful Cairo and Josef Federman successful Jerusalem contributed to this report.

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