Houthis claim missile attack on Tel Aviv after Israel strikes Yemen airport – Middle East crisis live

Last Update: 2024-12-27 14:00:04 - Source: The Guardian

Houthi rebels have claimed responsibility for the overnight firing of a missile at Tel Aviv’s Ben Gurion airport

A Palestinian man stabbed an 83-year-old woman to death in the Israeli city of Herzliya, Israeli media reported on Friday, in what police described as a terrorist attack. Ambulance services said the woman was treated at the scene by paramedics and transferred in a critical condition to hospital. Israeli media reported she later died of her injuries. Police said the attacker, a former security services informant from the northern area of the occupied West Bank, was caught and arrested.

The Israeli military reported it conducted air strikes on Friday targeting “infrastructure” on the Syrian-Lebanese border near the village of Janta, which it claimed was used to smuggle weapons to the armed group Hezbollah.

Earlier today, the IAF (Israeli air force) struck infrastructure that was used to smuggle weapons via Syria to the Hezbollah terrorist organisation in Lebanon at the Janta crossing on the Syrian-Lebanese border.

These strikes are an additional part of the IDF’s (Israeli military’s) effort to target weapons smuggling operations from Syria into Lebanon, and prevent Hezbollah from re-establishing weapons smuggling routes.

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