At least six international airlines announced this Sunday that They suspend their flights to Israel for 48 hours, after a missile launched from Yemen for the Hutis rebels will impact the area of Ben Gurion International Airport, in the city of Tel Aviv.
Among the airlines that have canceled their flights until Tuesday morning are the low cost Wizz Air, but also the German Lufthansa, Air France, Air Europa, and Austrian and Switzerland airlinesaccording to several companies.
For the first time in more than a year and a half of Israeli war offensive in the Gaza Strip, this Sunday the area of the Ben Gurion airport suffered the impact of a missile launched since Yemen that caused minor injuries to six people.
“After the sound of sirens in several areas of Israel, several attempts to intercept a missile launched from Yemen were performed. A drop in the Ben Gurion airport area was detected. The incident is under investigation“The Army reported without, for the moment, it has given more details of the incident.
Yemen’s hutis claimed the attack, stating that “They carried out a military operation that was aimed at the Ben Gurion airport, in the busy Yafa (Tel Aviv), with a hypersonic ballistic missile“That hit” successfully. “
The explosion left at least six people injured, of which four suffered injuries directly related to the explosion and two other wounds on their way to shelters, the Magen David Adom (MDA) emergency emergency service reported, according to the EFE agency.
During different months of 2024, and especially in summer, More than a dozen airlines already temporarily canceled their flights to Tel Aviv, before the fear of an attack by Iran or the Shiite Militia Hizbulá in Lebanon as retaliation to the Israeli attacks that killed in July to the maximum political chief of Hamás, Ismail Haniyeh, In Tehran and the military chief of the Lebanese Shiites, Fuad Shukr, in Beirut.
