Sanaa/Jerusalem, May 16 -- Yemen's Houthi group said on Thursday night that it had launched a new ballistic missile attack on Ben Gurion Airport in central Israel, which was reportedly intercepted by Israeli defence systems earlier in the night.
"We carried out a qualitative military operation targeting Ben Gurion Airport, using a hypersonic ballistic missile," Houthi's military spokesperson Yahya Sarea said in a statement aired by the Houthi-run al-Masirah TV.
The spokesperson said the Houthis' operations "to impose a ban on air navigation at Ben Gurion Airport" will continue until Israel ends its offensive and blockade against the Palestinian enclave of the Gaza Strip.
Earlier in the night, the Israel Defence Forces said in a statem...