A few tens of meters further and would have been one massacre. A ballistic missile launched by Yemen At 9.22 on Sunday morning he hit one of the access routes to Terminal 3 ofBen Gurion airport Of Tel Avivinjuring six people and leaving a vast on the ground crater. THE Arrow defense systems and the American Thaad They were not able to break down the missile. Indeed, according to a first indiscretion transpired by the investigation of theAeronautics On the lack of interception, theanti -aircraft did not identify the missile in flight towards the Israeli territory. The Filo-Iranian group Houthi He claimed the attack by underlining the ability “to hit sensitive objectives of Israel”. Hamas He exulted by praising them for moving “the most advanced defense systems in the world”. For Israel It was a day of fear and anger, with the premier and the Defense Minister who have released fire declarations.
«The attacks of the Houthi come fromIran“, He said Benyamin Netanyahusharing on X a post in March of Donald Trump in which it accuses Tehran to finance the Yemenita group. “Israel will respond to the attack against ours main airport and, in a moment and place of our choice, also to their masters of terror Iranians», The prime minister threatened. Israel Katz He summarized: “Anyone who strikes us will be struck seven times a lot”.
The former head of theAuthority for Israeli civil aviation Avner Yarkoni he recalled that “it is the first time that a missile directly affects theBen Gurion airport». That is, a strategic site with high symbolic value for any country in the world. In November a Hezbollah rocket centered a parking on the perimeter of the airport but without the dramatic result obtained this time by Houthi. THE’explosionwhich occurred almost simultaneously with the shooting of alarm sirenspanicked the travelers who did not have time to reach the protected areas. «My body flew to the air with the explosion. I saw sand And mud who got up, “said one of the injured a Ynet. A woman hit by the splinters described anguished moments: “There is a parking There, there is no refugeI started running. I took it with a little indifference, ‘it’s a missile from Yementhere is tempered, I said to myself. A moment later I saw the missile fall right in front of me. The chips They hit me. I ended up on the ground, I heard the panicwere there glass Everywhere, “he said.
Contrary to the declarations of the HouthiThe devices launched against Israel According to sources of the Israeli defense they are not Hypersonic missiles (which fly up to 8 times the speed of the sound and do not follow a predictable ballistic trajectory), however even the Arrow 3 defense systems And Arrow 2which have interception percentages close to 90%, sometimes suffer failures in interception. And this time the bankruptcy has led to the first reaction the deletion of flights of most of the International Companiesincluded Ita, Swiss Air, Lufthansa, British Airways, Iberia, Wizz Air. Leaving millions of passengers to the ground even in the next few days, at least up to May 7th. With a economic loss for the country.
From the March 18thwhen theIDF resumed the War in GazaThe Houthi they shot about thirty ballistic missiles and different drones against Israel. Half has been demolished, the others did not reach the target. In the evening the prime minister has convened the Political and security cabinet To decide, among other things, on the Annunciation escalation in the strip. The chief of staff Eyal Zamir made it known that tens of thousands of Orders of mobilization of reservists. The new plan of thearmy To increase the pressure on Hamas It foresees a big displacement of the residents from the North and the Center of the Stripthe taking of control of the evacuated areas where they will establish Outposts of the IDFthe realization of humanitarian complexesbetween the Morag corridor and the Philadelphiawhere the citizens evacuated for the umpteenth time will be moved since the conflict began. That is, i 576 days that 59 hostagesperhaps 23 still alive, are passing buried in the tunnels of Gaza.