Posted on 05/04/25
| News Source: JPost
Israel is set to retaliate to the Houthi missile launch at Ben-Gurion Airport on Sunday, following a decision made at the security cabinet later in the day.
Following the Houthi missile strike, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a video that Israel has acted against the Iran-backed Houthis in Yemen in the past and will act again in the future.
“We’ve acted against them in the past, and we’ll act again in the future," Netanyahu said.
"This isn’t a one-and-done, but there will be some big hits,” the prime minister continued.
On Sunday, an Israeli source told The Jerusalem Post that following the recent Houthi missile attack, Israel is considering revising its recent policy toward Yemen to respond directly to such attacks.
Since US President Donald Trump took office, partly due to his request, Israel has refrained from striking targets in Yemen since the Houthis resumed their attacks.
During the Biden administration, Israel struck Houthi targets in Yemen five times since July 2024.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will convene a meeting to discuss the response to the missile fire from Yemen, with a limited number of ministers and senior defense officials in attendance.
Defense sources told The Jerusalem Post that there will be a response to the Houthis, but it is too early to say when it will occur.
There was a temporary shift in policy, giving Trump the opportunity to address the Houthi problem without Israeli involvement, but now that Ben-Gurion Airport was attacked, this policy is being reconsidered.
After the most recent attack at Ben-Gurion Airport on Sunday morning, Defense Minister Israel Katz said, "Whoever harms us will be struck sevenfold in return."
Three people were lightly wounded on Sunday as a result of a Houthi missile that crashed in the area of Ben-Gurion Airport's Terminal 3.
Sources in the IDF said that they don't know whether it was a direct crash from the missile or whether it was fragments from the missile that crashed in the area. Army Radio noted that the missile was not intercepted, however several attempts were made to intercept it.