Will the occupation succeed in regaining the airport from the grip of the “Houthis”?
The Israeli occupation and its ally, the US, escalated their aggression on Yemen on Tuesday, following the removal of the most important international airports in Tel Aviv from service. Will the mission to restore it succeed?
Exclusive – Al-Khabar Al-Yemeni:
Last Sunday was a difficult day for the Israeli occupation, as its day turned into night with the reality of a strong Yemeni strike that shook its entity and the ground beneath it. It was accustomed to nightly missile strikes, throwing all its weight to hide them or downplay them, but this time the event was monitored by the Zionists themselves and the media cameras around the world, and it was broadcast live on air, and it found no refuge to escape it except by keeping up with it.
The strike was unprecedented, and the echoes of the shock within the occupation itself are still lingering even after three days, and its repercussions are worrying the entity and haunting the concerns of its leaders, with the decision of the majority of airlines to suspend flights to and from Tel Aviv for an indefinite period.
The occupation government failed to restore the confidence of the companies and even the pilots, and it failed to explain what happened, and the most powerful of its defenses, along with America, failed even to intercept the new missile.
Today, after three days, the scene seems evident, as satellite images have recorded the airport empty of planes and a decline in flights at the most important international airport for the occupation, which used to serve between 60,000 and 70,000 passengers daily, to less than tens, and perhaps a lone flight a day.
This scene recalls the scene of the port of Eilat, with the decision of Yemen to ban navigation to it at the beginning of the confrontation in 2023. The occupation tried for months to resist the Yemeni ban before declaring its bankruptcy and closing it and laying off its employees.
The same matter is renewed, but this time it is not a maritime blockade but an aerial one, with the closure of the most prominent air outlets for the occupation, and the matter for the occupation is not related to the economic collapse it is suffering in several sectors, whether agricultural, industrial, or tourism and travel, but rather to its food needs, which it had secured through air supply chains in light of the maritime failure and the extension of the blockade to its ports in the Mediterranean.
All that the occupation is doing now in its aggression on Yemen is aimed solely at restoring the confidence of companies and Zionists in the possibility of securing the airport, even temporarily, but the indicators on the ground confirm that Ben Gurion Airport is heading towards the path of the port of Eilat.