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Yemen hits Israel’s Ben Gurion airport with ballistic missile (www.presstv.ir)

submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Yemen’s Armed Forces have hit the Ben Gurion Airport near Tel Aviv after several attempts by the Israeli military to intercept it failed.

The missile bypassed four layers of air defense and landed in the heart of Ben Gurion Airport on Sunday, with both Arrow and THAAD systems failing to intercept the advanced missile.

Israeli daily Yedioth Aharonot, citing emergency services, said at least seven people were injured in the attack.

Israeli media published footage from the moment when a ballistic missile launched from Yemen made a “direct impact” in the main airport.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

Israel is using civilians inside Ben Gurion Airport as human shield. 🤭

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 day ago

Who does not have the visual of the movie 300's when Leonidas throws his spear at Xerxes face to prove his mortality?! Yemen and its people will continue to suffer but they will be remembered for their fierce conviction.

[–] Punchshark 17 points 1 day ago

Buy the ticket, take the ride!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (2 children)

The attack was done by the "yemeni armed forces" which is the official military of yemen.

However, yemen has been in a civil war since 2014, with command of the military split between the government and the hoithi rebels.

The spokesperson who took credit for the attack in the article, yahya saree is described by wikipedia as being part of the houthi faction.

This seems to be much less of an official yemeni military action than the text of the article might lead you to believe.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

The Houthis are the government. The fake Western-Saudi backed rebels control less than 20% of the country and are only claimed to be the government by people halfway across the globe

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 day ago

The majority of the Yemeni population is under the Houthi government. Aside from relations with other countries, they are pretty much the de facto current government of Yemen.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

🎵https://archive.org/details/gpw58p%F0%9F%8E%B5

[+] [email protected] -44 points 1 day ago (7 children)

We should be able to be pro-palestine and still be capable of calling this a terrorist attack. There are hundreds, if not thousands, of people who have nothing to do with the war that could have been killed in this attack. I work in aviation, for an airline that has regular flights to Tel Aviv, and it terrifies me that I, or someone close to me could've been there.

[–] [email protected] 50 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Ben Gurion is used for military deliveries by countries such as the US. Ben Gurion airport is a military base.

Video shows cargo planes delivering armored vehicles to Israeli Defense Forces

A U.S. military plane landed in Ben Gurion Airport with a shipment of armored vehicles for the Israeli Defense Forces, the Israeli Defense Ministry said Thursday.

Also there is a secret nuclear missile site underneath Ben Gurion airport.

[+] [email protected] -31 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Ben Gurion airport is also a civilian airport where there are civilians.

[–] [email protected] 60 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You know how you can't show Hamas bases in hospitals but I can show you military deliveries at Ben Gurion airport?

Israel is using human shields.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Afaik only Israel said Hamas used the hospitals, back when they lied about their genocide attempts.. Tbf I don't even care if Hamas did, using children as a shield is still not as cruel as actually fucking bombing them

Not to mention tens(hundreds?) of thousands of innocents shelled by the IDF. And decades of abuse at the hands of the Israeli population. And the complete ignorance that Hamas, before being forced to become ~~terrorists~~ resistance fighters for Palestine, was elected by the people as government of Gaza in 2006, to regain some order after the last time the Israeli government attacked Gaza. And some dimwit rose-tinted fucks still have the audacity to complain about October 7th and support the elimination of the Palestinian and Muslim population headed by Netanyahu.

I'm always on the side of the oppressed. And against evil States. Go Yemen.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 day ago

Human shields. Or does that not work when it comes to Israel?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago

Nods.

Human shield type energy right there

[–] masterspace 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I think you're right in the abstract, but in Israel's specific case, they've slaughtered, literally, tens to hundreds of thousands of civilian Palestinians.

In that context it's really hard to feel that an attack against mixed use infrastructure with potential civilian casualties is a terrorist attack or a war crime.

When Ukraine bombs a road and it kills Russian civilians is that a terrorist attack?

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Airports are valid military targets. I am sorry that this affects you personally but that doesn't make this missile attack a terrorist attack.

Furthermore, notice how western media didn't call this Israeli air strike a terror attack. https://apnews.com/article/yemen-houthi-rebels-airstrikes-sanaa-israel-hamas-war-8f73755ccc47a34261cc041658403b4d

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 day ago

So don't fucking go there.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 day ago

It's not terrorism when you do your duty to do everything you are able to in order to stop an ongoing genocide.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 day ago

You can always refuse to fly to Israel :)

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 day ago

There is a film called The Clerks, and there is a scene about collateral casualties of contractors when Luke Skywalker destroys death star.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

What is complicity, what is innocence?