The Israeli strikes on Thursday landed as the head of the
UN’s World Health Organization said he and his team were preparing to fly out
from Yemen’s capital.
Hours later on Friday, the Ansarallah said they fired a
missile at Ben Gurion airport and launched drones at Tel Aviv as well as a ship
in the Arabian Sea.
No other details were immediately available.
Yemen’s civil aviation authority said the airport planned to
reopen on Friday after the strikes that it said occurred while the UN aircraft
“was getting ready for its scheduled flight.”
The Israeli military did not immediately respond to a
request for comment on whether they knew at the time that WHO chief Tedros
Adhanom Ghebreyesus was there.
Israel’s attack came a day after the Ansarallah rebels
claimed the firing of a missile and two drones at Israel.
Ansarullah leader Abdul-Malik al-Houthi has termed Yemen’s
launch of hypersonic missiles at Israeli targets “a very important
achievement”, saying they have surprised the enemies.
“Yemen's supersonic missile operation, which penetrated the
enemy's systems, is a great and very important achievement, and the enemy and
the Americans are aware of it,” Houthi said in a televised speech on Thursday
evening.
The firing of hypersonic missiles, he said, has caused immense disappointment
among the political and security apparatus of Israel and the United States.
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