Again and Again and Again and Again: Houthis Try To Mass-Murder Israelis

A Houthi missile slammed down at Ben-Gurion airport, wounding six. Defense Minister vows response as Houthis vow more rockets at the airport.

Update: Israeli Prime Minister, Binyamin Netanyahu has called for an urgent meeting later today to weigh responses to the ongoing Houthi missile attacks on Israel.

Defense Minister Yisrael Katz following the firing of a missile from Yemen: "Whoever harms us will be harmed sevenfold."

In parallel, a senior Houthi official vowed that, “We will continue to attack Ben Gurion Airport, we don't have a red line.”

Israeli security officials told Kan News, after a weekend full of rocket launches from Yemen: "Israel will respond forcefully. After the damage to Ben Gurion Airport, there is no restriction on us."

Video of the moment of impact, filmed by a passenger within the main terminal:

The Houthi ballistic missile hit impacted in a grove of fruit trees, according to police.

A Magen David Adom spokesperson told Army Radio: “A 50-year-old man was hit by small stones that flew as a result of the impact of the missile. His condition is mild-moderate. In addition, a 54-year-old woman was injured as a result of the blast and is in light condition. A number of other panic victims were injured at the scene.”

Israel's gateway airport is set to reopen shortly, officials said, according to Galatz Army Radio. Train service from Jerusalem and the coast to the terminal has been restarted, a police spokesman told Israel Radio.

This is the size of the massive pit left by the warhead's impact—note the relative size of the police official clambering within the hole. For peak irony, the El-Al as on the left says, roughly, “your home away from home,” or more literally, “El Al – The most at home in the world.”

Debris from the impact was hurled as far as the entrance of the terminal, hitting an overhang, and a police vehicle parked beneath:

The Israeli Arrow 3 and US THAAD defensive missiles apparently missed the incoming Houthi ballistic missile, according to latest reports, but the IDF investigation of the strike is still ongoing.

Personal note: I live in Tzfat in the Galilee, and heard the distant double boom of the outgoing Israeli defensive missiles self-destructing after missing the Houthi ballistic missile.

It's hard to see how the government can continue its policy of restraint towards the Iranian proxy after this, the fourth ballistic missile in as many days and the 27th since the resumption of IDF ops against Hamas and to rescue the hostages—and one that hit such a strategic target. In the words of Galatz reporter, Doron Kadosh:

“1. The mantra that already sounds like a tired cliché, "there is no hermetic defense," is again proven true this morning. Of the 27 ballistic missiles that the Houthis have launched at Israel in the past month and a half (since the resumption of fighting in Gaza), 1 hit. A quick calculation: more than 95% of successful interceptions by air defense systems, but there will always be a few percent of misses. Luckily, there are no serious casualties, but this incident could have ended much worse. Therefore, the importance of adhering to the Home Front Command's instructions becomes clear again.

“2. In the last four months, Israel has been outsourcing the Houthi problem and has not attacked at all in Yemeni territory. For the past month and a half, the US has been conducting a daily bombing campaign in large areas controlled by the Houthi in Yemen. There is literally no night when the Americans do not attack in Yemen, sometimes many dozens of attacks. According to the Americans, quite a few senior Houthi leaders have also been eliminated. And yet, a brief lesson in the limitations of force: even after many hundreds of American attacks in recent weeks - the Houthis manage to launch a ballistic missile or a drone every few hours or every few days. The Houthi problem has not been completely eliminated and it seems that it is far from it.

“3. Remember President Trump's threat that every Houthi missile would be intercepted by the US as if it had been launched directly from Iranian territory? And also a few days ago, the American Secretary of Defense's threatening tweet towards the Iranians: "See, you have been warned"?

“In the meantime, these statements have not yet been translated into action.”

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Following are compiled reports from the previous recent attempted missile attacks:

And again, for the second time today - attempted mass-murder of an entire populace; men, women, and children; Jew, Muslim, Christian - all targeted by a ballistic missile fired by Iranian-backed Houthi terrorists in Yemen.

Video and an image of the interception by, presumably, an IAF Arrow defensive missile.

Since the resumption of fighting in Gaza in March, the Houthis have fired 25 ballistic missiles and explosive drones at Israel - nearly all shot out of the sky outside Israeli airspace.

Fragments of the midday shootdown struck a building in the Israeli Arab town of Tamra, causing a fire; it’s unclear as of this posting if there were casualties in the event.

Since the beginning of the war when Hamas-led Gazan terrorists invaded southern Israel, the Iranian-backed proxy has fired some 40 such armements and over 300 explosive and surveillance UAVs at the Jewish State - one of which killed a Tel Aviv resident in July 2024, according to official figures. Dozens of others have been injured running for shelter, and the repeated aerial threats have caused significant disruption as millions of prople seek immediate shelter.

“Fragments of an interception penetrated a tiled roof of a kindergarten in Kibbutz Mishmar HaEmek in the Megiddo Regional Council. There were no casualties.” (Adir Lehakim, Ch 14 News).

What's galling, to me, at least, is that we've all become inured to repeated attempts to kill us off, wholesale.

That the Air Force interceptor hit the weapon outside of our territory, over neighboring Jordan, is irrelevent. It’s as if, Israel and the Western world has given Iranian proxies across the region the ability and right to do “do-overs”.

US President Trump is expending a tremendous amout of military munitions, planning, and effort on air, sea, and land in hammering the Houthis deep into the ground—both over their international shipping piracy, and their attacks against us—it’s hard not to get the feeling that the now postponed talks with Iran over their nuclear program is sapping the vitality out of the effort.

Israeli Air Force jets have struck significant Houthi strategic assets on four separate occasions (July, September and December of 2024, and in January of 2025)—targeting ports, powerplants, and military facilities in retaliation.

But—speaking as a veteran resident here who has covered the region for several decades—it’s growing hard not to demand that Israel and its Western allies conclusively and decisively crush the head of the metastizing octopus that has spread and inflicted warfare, death, and misery throughout the region and elsewhere since the Islamic Revolution in February of 1979: the mullahs in Tehran and their allies.

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