Flights at Israel's Ben Gurion Airport disrupted by Houthi missile attack
發佈日期: 2025-05-05 19:36
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's security cabinet has approved a gradual expansion of the offensive against Palestinian militant group Hamas in Gaza.
The Israeli military has begun issuing tens of thousands of call-up orders for its reserve forces, looking to expand the Gaza campaign.
This as Yemen's Houthi rebels fired missiles towards Israel on Sunday, landing near the country's main airport, wounding four people.
Tracey Furniss has more.
Bulldozers were at work at a site near Israel's Ben Gurion Airport where a projectile landed on Sunday.
Israel's army said it was the first time a missile struck the airport grounds since the war in Gaza began.
It was not immediately clear whether the projectile which landed in a field near an access road leading to the airport car park was a missile launched by the Iranian-backed rebels in Yemen or its fragments, but later Israel's military found it was an interceptor from Israel's air defence systems.
It left a deep crater in the ground and a nearby road littered with dirt.
Inside Ben Gurion International Airport, passengers were dealing with flight cancellations.
Traveller Michael Scemes said: "I'm supposed to go back to Paris today and Air France cancelled their flight. And I'm afraid it's going to be very difficult today to go back to France because all European carriers, from what I see on the information, have cancelled."
Early Monday, the rebels issued a warning to airlines that they would carry out repeated targeting of Ben Gurion Airport.
The Houthis warned international carriers to cancel all their flights to the airports of "the criminal Israeli enemy, in order to safeguard the safety of their aircraft and passengers."
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel will take very strong action against Yemen's Houthi rebels.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said: "We're being challenged, the whole world is being challenged by the Houthis, including in the dastardly attack they did today near Ben Gurion Airport. We will not tolerate it. We will take very strong action against them and we always remember that they act with their patron Iran's direction and support. We will do what we need to do to take care of our security, to respond effectively and to give Iran a due warning that this cannot continue."
