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Air raid sirens have sounded over a large part of the Israeli occupied territories following a missile attack from Yemen which targeted Tel Aviv early Friday, which caused Ben Gurion airport to shut down. \u00a0<\/p>\n
Israel\u2019s emergency services reported that 18 settlers were injured in Tel Aviv while attempting to reach the safety of shelters.<\/p>\n
Videos shared online showed Israel\u2019s Iron Dome missile defense system failing, as it attempted to intercept the incoming projectile.<\/p>\n
The missile strike reportedly forced half of the occupied territories into lockdown, with Israeli outlets describing the incident as a failure of the regime\u2019s defensive measures.<\/p>\n
In a statement, the Yemeni armed forces said they “carried out a specific military operation targeting Ben Gurion Airport in the occupied \u00a0area of Yaffa [Tel Aviv] using a hypersonic ballistic missile of Palestine2 type”.<\/p>\n
“The missile succeeded in reaching its target despite the enemy’s censorship, and the operation resulted in casualties and the cessation of navigation at the airport,” it said.<\/p>\n
It came hours after Israeli warplanes conducted airstrikes on Yemen\u2019s capital Sana’a, and the port city of Hudaydah.<\/p>\n
Israeli airstrikes hit Sana\u2019a international airport and other locations in Yemen on Thursday.<\/p>\n
Reports said the airport was struck by \u201cmore than six\u201d attacks with raids also targeting the adjacent al-Dailami air base,<\/p>\n
A series of strikes were also carried out against a power station in Yemen\u2019s strategic western port city of Hudaydah, the al-Masirah television channel reported.<\/p>\n
The spokesman for Yemen’s Ansarullah movement, Mohammed Abdulsalam, called the strikes \u201ca Zionist crime against all the Yemeni people.\u201d<\/p>\n
On Wednesday, a missile launched from Yemen triggered air raid sirens across central Israeli-occupied territories, sending millions of settlers looking for cover for the second night in a row.<\/p>\n
Military spokesman Brigadier General Yahya Saree said the new operation involved a Palestine-2 hypersonic ballistic missile and struck an Israeli military target in Tel Aviv.<\/p>\n
It was the fourth time in a week that fire from Yemen set off sirens in Israeli settlements.<\/p>\n
On Saturday, 16 people were injured when a missile hit Tel Aviv after Israel\u2019s much-hyped air defense system failed to intercept it.<\/p>\n
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