YEMEN - Houthi Terrorists Strike Tel Aviv Airport
A Houthi ballistic missile struck near Israel’s Ben Gurion Airport, injuring six and prompting flight disruptions. The IDF failed to intercept the rocket, raising concerns over air defense gaps and economic fallout.
Several flights bound for Israel turned back midair, and other airlines considered canceling future trips. According to the Israel Airports Authority, activity at the airport resumed within 30 minutes of the strike, with only one flight redirected. Israeli media later reported that additional flights were either grounded or forced to return mid-flight.
Since the start of the Israel-Hamas war in October 2023, the Iranian-backed Houthi group has launched over 70 rockets at Israel in what it claims is an act of solidarity with Palestinians.
“This is not Yemen, this is Iran. It is Iran that is firing ballistic missiles at the State of Israel, and it must bear responsibility,” wrote former Defense Minister Benny Gantz on X. “The Israeli government must wake up… Firing at Israel must lead to a severe response against Tehran.”
“The Americans have been using nearly all of their capabilities against the Houthis,” said Danny Citrinowicz, Tel Aviv-based research fellow at the Institute for National Security Studies. “What else could Israel possibly add?”
-themedialine.org, 4 May 2025
Arno's Commentary
A Google search reveals: “The term [Teman/Yemen] is also traditionally used in Biblical Hebrew as the synonym of the direction south and was … used as the Hebrew name of Yemen (whose Arabic name is ‘Yaman’) due to its location in the southern end of the Arabian Peninsula, so that Yemenite Jews are being called ‘Temanim’ in Hebrew.” Another statement adds: “Turns out, Sheba was actually located in Yemen. South Arabia was one of the most remote lands mentioned in the Bible, for it is 2,400 km (1,500 miles) from the land of Israel.” Of interest is that Yemen, some 1,500 miles away from Israel, developed into an unexpected enemy.
Wikipedia states: “Operation Magic Carpet is the widely known nickname for Operation On Wings of Eagles (Hebrew: Knafei Nesharim), which was conducted by Israel between June 1949 and September 1950 to take in approximately 49,000 Yemenite Jews as part of the Jewish exodus from the Muslim world.”
This proves beyond a shadow of doubt that the issue is not territory between Arabs and Jews. Rather, one word—hate—is the motivating factor for the Houthis to indiscriminately target Israeli civilians. Will these terrorists succeed? Not at all. They will experience Israel’s wrath, as have Hamas and Hezbollah in recent months and years.
In contrast, we read the declaration of God by the prophet Amos: “And I will plant them upon their land, and they shall no more be pulled up out of their land which I have given them, saith the Lord thy God” (Amos 9:15).
Arno Froese is the executive director of Midnight Call Ministries and editor-in-chief of the acclaimed prophetic magazines Midnight Call and News From Israel. He has authored a number of well-received books, and has sponsored many prophecy conferences in the U.S., Canada, and Israel. His extensive travels have contributed to his keen insight into Bible prophecy, as he sees it from an international perspective.
