Doha, May 27 -- Yemen's Ansar Allah movement, also known as the Houthis, said on Tuesday that it had launched attacks on Israel's Ben Gurion Airport and a key target in Tel Aviv using two ballistic missiles.

"The Yemeni armed forces' missile forces carried out a qualitative double military operation with two ballistic missiles. One of them, a hypersonic 'Palestine 2' missile, was fired at Lod Airport, known in Israel as Ben Gurion Airport, in the occupied Jaffa region," the movement said on Telegram.

The other, a "Dhu al-Fiqar" missile, targeted a "vital Zionist enemy target east of the occupied Jaffa region", the Houthis said.

Houthis said the firing was made in response to the Israeli military activity in the Gaza Strip and the invasio...