Yemen targets Israel's Ben Gurion airport, US aircraft carrier

Yemen’s armed forces say they have successfully carried out an operation against Israel's Ben Gurion Airport and a number of military targets within the occupied territories in solidarity with Palestinians. 

In a statement released on Thursday, Yemen's Ansarallah resistance movement said the country’s forces had struck the airport and Israeli military sites in the occupied area of Yaffa, using 'Dhu al-Fiqar'  and Palestine-2 hypersonic ballistic missiles.

The statement added that the operation successfully achieved its objective.

Israeli media reports said that air raid sirens sounded across al-Quds and the central part of the occupied territories shortly after 1:00 p.m. local time on Thursday.

An Israeli military spokesperson confirmed that the alarms were triggered by the launch of two ballistic missiles from Yemen. The Israeli military said it was investigating the incident.

The Yemeni resistance group has repeatedly fired drones and missiles towards Israeli-occupied territories as acts of solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza. It has said it would stop such attacks if Israel halted its ongoing 'barbaric military campaign' in the besieged Gaza.

Elsewhere in the statement, Ansarallah also said that its forces struck US warships and an aircraft carrier in the Red Sea. 

"In retaliation to the ongoing US aggression against our country, the missile , UAV, and the naval forces carried out a joint military operation targeting enemy warships in the Red Sea, led by the US aircraft carrier Truman, with a number of ballistic and cruise missiles and drones," the statement read.

Washington and London, the Tel Aviv regime's biggest benefactors, have been relentlessly bombing Yemen over the past several days, killing dozens, mostly women and children, in a desperate attempt to stop Sanaa's military operations against Israel.

US warplanes carried out at least 15 air raids on the southern and northeastern regions of Yemen's capital late on Wednesday, including airstrikes in the vicinity of Sanaa International Airport.

On Wednesday morning, the US-led western coalition renewed its targeting of the Sahar District of the Saada governorate. This region had been targeted with two dozen airstrikes in the middle of the night.

Overnight US and British airstrikes also targeted the al-Rasool al-Azam cancer hospital in Saada, marking the second attack on the oncology center in just a few days.

“The US aggression targeted the hospital for the second time, leading to its destruction. This comes just days after multiple airstrikes hit the same hospital,” a Yemeni security source said.

The Yemeni forces have responded to Washington’s with drone and missile attacks on US warships in the Red Sea, continuing an intense naval campaign that forced several western warships out of regional waters last year.

“In response to the US aggression against our country … and within the framework of confronting escalation with escalation …  the missile force, the unmanned air force, and the naval forces carried out a joint military operation targeting enemy warships in the Red Sea, led by the US aircraft carrier Truman, from which the aggression against our country is launched,” the Yemeni forces said.

“The confrontation and clashes continued for several hours.”

Yemen has launched several attacks on Israel since the Gaza ceasefire collapsed, which led to the Yemeni forces resuming operations in support of the besieged Palestinian strip.

Trump's decision to restart the previous government's war against Yemen has been overshadowed by an intelligence scandal involving a leaked group chat among US officials planning attacks on multiple Yemeni cities.

Leader of Yemen's Ansarullah resistance movement Abdul-Malik al-Houthi in a recent speech said  that “the Israeli enemy’s aggressive course, in partnership with the US, is moving toward a clear goal, an attempt to eradicate the Palestinian cause.”

Al-Houthi  added that “the displacement of the Palestinian people is evident in the Israeli enemy’s actions of genocide, destruction, starvation, and thirst.”

He stressed that “the displacement of the Palestinian people is also evident in the attacks on the occupied West Bank.”

Al-Houthi stated that “the Arab countries must take serious action and a courageous and historic position to prevent the displacement of the Palestinian people and reject normalization.”

On 18 March, Israeli forces resumed their aggression on the Gaza Strip, following a two-month pause as part of a ceasefire agreement that came into effect on 19 January.

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