The group's military spokesman, Yahya Saree, said in a televised statement: "The missile force carried out a qualitative military operation targeting Lod (Ben Gurion) Airport in the Jaffa (Tel Aviv) area with a hypersonic ballistic missile of the "Palestine 2" type, bypassing Israeli interception systems."
He stressed that the operation "caused great confusion among the ranks of the Israeli enemy, with millions of usurping Zionists fleeing to shelters, and the airport being suspended," adding that "the Air Force carried out two military operations with two drones that targeted two targets belonging to the Israeli enemy, one military and the other vital, in the Jaffa and Ashkelon areas of occupied Palestine."
Saree stressed that "the three operations successfully achieved their objectives," noting that these operations represent "a victory for the Palestinian people and a response to the crimes of genocide and starvation perpetrated by the Zionist enemy against our brothers in Gaza."
Earlier, several Israelis were injured and Tel Aviv airspace was closed after a missile was fired from Yemen, according to the Israeli emergency services, Magen David Adom. The Israeli military said it was intercepted.
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Channel 12 reported that the authorities closed Israeli airspace after detecting the missile, noting that air raid sirens sounded in several areas in central Israel as a result of the missile, which it said disintegrated in the air into several fragments, one of which fell in the settlement of Modi'in near Tel Aviv.
The Houthi group is launching continuous attacks against Israeli targets in support of the Gaza Strip, using missiles and drones, and is also targeting ships linked to or heading towards it.
On July 27, the Houthis decided to escalate their naval operations against Israel by "targeting all ships belonging to any company that deals with Israeli ports, regardless of the company's nationality," in support of the Gaza Strip, which has been subjected to a US-backed Israeli genocide since October 7, 2023.
The Israeli genocide left 62,263 Palestinians dead, 157,365 injured, most of them children and women, more than 9,000 missing, hundreds of thousands displaced, and a famine that claimed the lives of 273 people, including 112 children.
