Tel Aviv, Sept 9, (dpa/GNA) – A drone launched from Yemen has come down near the Israeli airport of Ramon in the south of the country, the military said on Sunday.
“No sirens were sounded, the incident is under review,” the army said on Telegram.
Israeli news site ynet reported that one person was slightly injured in the incident.
According to Israel’s aviation authority, the airport’s arrival hall was hit and the airspace above Ramon Airport, located to the north of Eilat – Israel’s southernmost city on the Red Sea – has been temporarily closed.
It comes after the military said three drones launched from Yemen, had been intercepted by air defence.
Yemen’s Houthi rebels claimed responsibility for several drone attacks across Israel on Sunday evening. A spokesman for the Iran-backed group said Ramon Airport was among the targets hit.
In early May, a missile launched by the Houthis came down near Tel Aviv’s Ben Gurion Airport.
Since the start of the Gaza conflict in October 2023, the Iranian-backed Houthi militia has been regularly attacking Israel with rockets and drones in support of the Palestinian Islamist Hamas militia in the Gaza Strip.
Israel, in turn, repeatedly targets sites in Yemen. In a recent airstrike on Sana’a, Houthi premier Ahmed al-Rahawi, nine of his ministers and two other Houthi representatives were killed.
GNA