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Number Seven Thousand Seven Hundred and Thirty One - 28 December 2024
Iran Daily - Number Seven Thousand Seven Hundred and Thirty One - 28 December 2024 - Page 7

Yemen launches missile attack on Israeli targets

Yemen on Friday said they carried out new military operation against Israel, using a hypersonic ballistic missile.
The Yemeni Armed Forces in a statement on Friday said they "carried out a specific military operation targeting Ben Gurion Airport in the occupied area of Yaffa [Tel Aviv] using a hypersonic ballistic missile of Palestine2 type".
The statement said the armed forces also targeted a ship in the Arabian Sea.
Israel's military earlier Friday said "one missile that was launched from Yemen was intercepted before crossing into Israeli territory."
There was no immediate comment on the other attacks claimed by Yemenis.
The latest attack by the Yemenis came after Israeli raids pounded Sana’a's international airport and other targets in Yemen on Thursday.
On Thursday, Israeli warplanes attacked Sana’a airport where the head of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said he was waiting for a flight. Four people died in the airport attack and around 20 travelers and staff were wounded, a Yemeni official said on Friday. The WHO chief said one of his plane's crew was among the injured.
The strikes against what Israel's military called Ansarallah’s "military targets" left six people dead in total, according to Yemeni media, and came a day after Yemen launched missile and drone attacks on Israel. Sanaa's international airport resumed services at 10:00 am (0700 GMT) on Friday, Deputy Transport Minister Yahya al-Sayani told a press conference.
The airport's control tower was "directly hit," along with the busy departure lounge, he said.
On Friday, the top of the control tower was a bombed-out shell and large windows in the airport building were shattered, with glass littering the ground.
"The attack happened when there were a lot of passengers and a plane departing at 7:00 pm," Sayani said.
"There was another plane planned to land and it did land directly after the attack."
A series of strikes were also carried out against a power station in Yemen’s strategic western port city of Hudaydah, the al-Masirah television channel reported. The statement by the Yemen’s Armed Forces also said that Israeli "aggression will only increase the determination and resolve of the great Yemeni people to continue supporting the Palestinian people".
Yemenis have declared their open support for Palestine’s struggle against the Israeli occupation since the regime launched its devastating war on Gaza on October 7, 2023, which has so far killed more than 45,000 Palestinians, mostly women and children.
Ansarullah has been also targeting ships linked to Israel, the United States, and the United Kingdom to force an end to the Tel Aviv regime’s genocidal war on Gaza. The Yemeni Armed Forces have said they will not stop their attacks until Israel’s ground and aerial offensives in Gaza end.

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