Yemen's Huthis say fired missile at Israel's Ben Gurion Airport
by AFP Staff Writers
Sanaa (AFP) Sept 28, 2024

Yemen's Huthi rebels said they fired a missile at Israel's Ben Gurion Airport Saturday, hoping to hit it as Prime Minister Benjmain Netanyahu arrived back from a visit to New York.

"The missile force... carried out an operation targeting... 'Ben Gurion'... Airport," the Iran-backed group said in a statement, adding it had named the missile "Palestine 2".

The Israeli military said earlier that it intercepted a missile fired from Yemen that triggered air raid sirens in the centre of the country.

Army says sirens in central Israel as Yemen missile intercepted
Jerusalem (AFP) Sept 28, 2024 - Israel's military said sirens rang out Saturday in central areas of the country as a missile fired from Yemen was intercepted, with AFP journalists reporting hearing explosions over Jerusalem.

"A short while ago, sirens were sounded in central Israel as a result of a missile launched from Yemen toward Israeli territory," a military statement said, later announcing that air defences intercepted it.

Iran VP says Hezbollah chief's killing will lead to Israel's 'destruction'
Tehran (AFP) Sept 28, 2024 - Iran's First Vice President Mohammad Reza Aref said Saturday that the killing of Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah in an air strike in the Lebanese capital will bring about Israel's "destruction".

"We warn the leaders of the occupying regime that the unjust bloodshed... especially of Hezbollah's secretary general, martyr Seyyed Hassan Nasrallah, will bring about their destruction," Iran's ISNA news agency quoted Aref as saying.

Lebanon's Hezbollah group, armed and financed by Iran, confirmed on Saturday that Nasrallah had been killed, after Israel said it had "eliminated" him in an air strike on Hezbollah's bastion in Beirut's southern suburbs the previous day.

Aref said that Iran will "stand by the Islamic resistance".

President Masoud Pezeshkian offered his condolences over Nasrallah's death and accused the United States of "complicity" in his killing.

A black flag of mourning was hoisted at the Imam Reza shrine in Iran's second city of Mashhad, the Tasnim news agency reported.

Mourners gathered waving yellow Hezbollah flags and chanting: "Death to Israel", state TV footage showed.

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