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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that Sunday that Israel would hit the Hutis and Iran after a missile dismissed by the militants backed by Tehran landed near the main international airport of Israel.
The attack, which injured four people, interrupted the flights and left a large crater near the park inside the perimeter of Ben Gurion airport, occurred when Israel Israel issued a call to thousands of reservists in preparation for the rat of its offensive in Gaza.
The images published on social networks showed a huge plume of smoke and dust that rises from the site of the missile strike, as well as on access roads sown with debris thrown into the air by the impact.
“I can’t reveal all the details. It is not ‘explosion’ and we have finished, but there will be bangs,” Netyahu said in a video statement published on social networks, committing to respond against the hutis for the strike.
After the president of the United States, Donald Trump warned that he would hold Tehran for the most attacks of the Hutis, Netanyahu added that Israel also responds to Agast Iran: “Houthis Emprom attacks. Isurate.
The launch of Sunday’s missiles was the last of the savings boxes that the hutis have shot Israel since Gaza invaded in response to Hamas’ attack on October 7, 2023. Although most have been intercepted, some have passed through the aerial defenses of Israel, and the hutis have continued to shoot even when the United States has bombarded hundreds of goals in Yemen stop.
Netanyahu was due to how to respond to the strike at the airport and Israel’s next steps in his war with Hamas in Gaza with officials later on Sunday.
The calls of the reservists, which the military said, would allow “deepening” in Gaza, to mark the last escalation of Israel’s operations in the Palestinian enclave that broke a high fragile fire with Hamas two months ago.
Since then, Israel has cut food supplies, fuel, medicine and help for the population of 2.1 million people, exacerbating extreme hunger and evil den in the territory, and promoting the prices of fruits and vegetables at exorbitant levels in the few places.
The Israeli forces have also seized stripes of land along the borders of Gaza, as well as in other areas, such as around the southern city of Rafah, and in the Netzarim corridor, which separates the north and south of Gaza.
However, the extreme right ministers in which the Netanyahu coalition depends on their majority have been demanding that the government order a much greater operation in the shattered territory, where Hamas still has 59 Israeli hostages.
Bezalel Smotrich, Israel’s Ultranationalist Finance Minister, Said Last Month The Government Would have “No Right to Exist” If it Did Not Defat Hamas, Occupy Gaza, Install A “Temporary Military Government”, Free the Host Tages and Implementing TostasSENSSENS AND IMPLEMING TOCAS. Implementing Tosses and Implementing Tosses and Implementing Tosses and Implementing Tosses and Implementing Tosses and Implementing Tosaal Tosagass and implementation of Tosaagass and proposals tosagass and proposess and implementing government releases and implementing toppo, population, an idea widely considered an ethnic cleaning.
However, most Israelis due to an agreement to end the war, and last month, the number of reservists signed requests that asked the government to make an agreement with Hamas to end the fighting and free the hostages.
Netanyahu said last week that by bringing home the hostages was a “very important objective” in the war, the “final objective is the victory over our enemies.”
Israel’s offensive in Gaza has killed more than 52,500 people, according to Palestinian officials. Duration The October 7 attack of Hamas, the militants killed 1,200 people, according to Israeli officials and tok 250.
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