In turn, the UN has contradicted Israel, assuring that the airports it has attacked in Yemen are for civilian use and asking Israel to respect civilian infrastructure.
The alarms were activated early Saturday morning in several areas of Israel, including Jerusalem, where they had not been heard since Iran’s attack with about 200 rockets on October 1. The military reported that the warning system was activated by a missile. launched from Yemen.
“IDF (Israeli Army): Following the sirens that sounded recently in the areas of Jerusalem and the Dead Sea, a missile launched from Yemen was intercepted by the Israeli Air Force before entering Israeli territory,” the army said in a statement.
The Israeli Emergency Service, in turn, reported that after the alarms were activated “there were no reports of injuries“, only some people with anxiety symptoms.
Yemen’s Houthi Shiite rebels attacked Israel’s Ben Gurion Airport, 15 kilometers southeast of Tel Aviv, with a ballistic missile early Friday in response to bombardments launched by the Israeli army on Sanaa airport and other Yemeni infrastructure on Thursday afternoon.
The Yemeni Houthis declared on Friday evening that their response “will not be long in coming” and that “Israeli aggression will not go unpunished,” while Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu insisted that Israel will hold out “until the task of neutralizing the Yemeni Houthis is complete’ and called them ‘Iran’s terrorist arm’.
The UN contradicts Israel
The UN yesterday contradicted the Israeli government, assuring that Sanaa airport and Al Hodeida port in Yemen, bombed by the Jewish State in attacks that killed six, are infrastructures for civilian and not military use.
Julien Harneis, UN coordinator in the country, said at a press conference that Sana’a Airport is a civil airport used for only one daily operation (a flight with an A320 aircraft of the national carrier Yemenia to Amman (Jordan).) , a route that is also the result of international negotiations.
In addition, it is used by the UN itself for its flights with humanitarian material or for specific missions to the country, and it is the only starting point for many Yemenis with serious medical complications to travel to be treated in Jordan.
For all these reasons, the United Nations (UN) has demanded that civilian infrastructure be respected, as “any damage that interrupts the operation of that airport would paralyze aid activities in the country.”
Source: EITB
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