The Israeli army announced today that it had stopped a rocket launched by Yemen, having previously activated the sirens in Jerusalem and central Israel, according to reporters from the French News Agency.

“Following the sirens that sounded recently in several areas of Israel, a rocket launched by Yemen was intercepted”the army said in a statement.

Is the third time In three days when the army announces such a blockage.

Following the start of the war in Gaza, which broke out after an unprecedented attack by the Palestinian Islamist Movement against Israel on October 7, 2023, Yemen’s Houthi rebels carried out dozens of attacks by rockets and unmanned aircraft. Palestinians.

On May 4, a Houthi rocket for the first time hit the perimeter of Ben Guron International Airportan attack that led most foreign airlines that serve Tel Aviv to suspend their flights.

In retaliation for these attacks, the Israeli army carried out quite blows in recent months against the goals of the Houthi in Yemen, where set off the Sanai Airport and bombed power plants and cement plants last week.

For their part, the US has been drafted, with Oman’s mediation, Truce deal with Houthiending in weeks of US air strikes as retaliation for the rocket attacks of the rebels and their attacks on ships off Yemen.