Missile hits Israel airport area in attack claimed by Yemen Huthis

A MISSILE landed inside the perimeter of Israel's main airport yesterday, wounding six people, halting flights and gouging a wide crater, in an attack claimed by Yemen's Iran-backed Huthi rebels.

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The Israeli military said “several attempts were made to intercept” the missile that was launched from Yemen, a rare Huthi attack that penetrated Israel’s air defences.

A video issued by Israel’s police force showed officers standing on the edge of a deep crater with the control tower visible in the distance behind them. No damage was reported to airport buildings or runways.

The police reported a “missile impact” at Ben Gurion airport, Israel's main international gateway.

A photographer said the missile hit near the parking lots of Terminal 3, the airport's largest, with the crater less than a kilometre away from the closest tarmac.

“You can see the area just behind us: a crater was formed here, several dozen metres (yards) wide and several dozen metres deep,” central Israel’s police chief, Yair Hezroni, said in the video shared by the force.