The Houthis announced a successful strike on Ben Gurion Airport

The representative of the armed forces of the Yemeni terrorist organization Ansar Allah (Houthis), Yahya Sari, announced a successful operation “to strike Ben Gurion Airport in occupied Jaffa using a Falastin-2 hypersonic missile.”

According to Sari, “the missile successfully reached its target, although the enemy was hiding it, the operation led to casualties and a stoppage of air traffic at the airport.”

Sari also said that Houthi UAVs successfully attacked the civilian ship Santa Ursula in the Arabian Sea. “The vessel was targeted because the company that owns it violated a decision banning entry into ports in occupied Palestine,” a Houthi spokesman explained.

At 3:29-3:31 a.m. on December 27, the “Tseva Adom” alarm sirens sounded again in the center of Israel. The IDF reported rocket fire from Yemen. Sirens were heard in Tel Aviv, Ramat Gan, Bnei Brak, Givatayim, Herzliya, Ra’anana, Rosh HaAyin, Hod Hasharon, Ramat Hasharon, Bat Yam, Holon, Rishon Lezion, Ness. Zion, Beer Yaakov, Petah Tikva, Bnei Brak, Or Yehuda, Ramla, Lod, Yavne, Ramla, Beit Shemesh, Modiin, and many other settlements in the center of the country. Distant explosions were heard.

The IDF said the rocket fired from Yemen was intercepted before crossing into Israel. The alert was activated due to concerns about the possibility of falling fragments of interceptor missiles.

The Magen David Adom ambulance service (MADA) reports that after the siren in central Israel, medical assistance was provided to 20 citizens, 18 of them were injured on the way to shelter, two needed help to recover from a state of nervous shock.

Information about the consequences of the shelling is being clarified.

In connection with the orders of the Home Front Department against the backdrop of repelling another missile attack from Yemen, departures and flights at Ben Gurion International Airport were suspended for about half an hour. Four planes flying from Europe were forced to maneuver near the coast of Israel while awaiting permission to land.

No damage was reported at Ben Gurion Airport. Already at about 4 am the planes received permission to land and take off.

The rocket attack on Israel from Yemen came about 10 hours after the IDF attacked targets in Sana’a and Hodeidah, targeting infrastructure used by the Houthi regime for military purposes at Sana’a International Airport, the Aziz and Ras Kantib power plants (“the backbone of the energy sector”). infrastructure of the Houthi terrorist regime”), infrastructure in the ports of Hodeidah, Al-Salif and Ras Kantib in western Yemen.