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.
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.
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
Also there is a secret nuclear missile site underneath Ben Gurion airport.
Secret? I heard about it on Lemmy!
Ben Gurion airport is also a civilian airport where there are civilians.
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.
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
terroristsresistance 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.
Human shields. Or does that not work when it comes to Israel?
Hospitals in Gaza were used by civilians yet israelis don’t give a shit about that and make the “human shield” noise after dropping bombs. Cry me a river.
It is possible for all of the following to be simultaneously true:
While all of the above crimes are of roughly the same type (albeit for different reasons), they do differ in extent - the Israeli War Cabinet is responsible for the most suffering by a wide margin.
I think it is a morally consistent position to condemn all of the war crimes above, although perhaps to prioritise efforts condemning the bigger ones.
Morally consistent with trump calling nazis very fine people
Maybe Israel shouldn’t hide behind human shields
Then you should condemn the zionist regime for using civilians as human shields. It was they who chose to place terrorist infrastructure at the centre of a civilian airport.
Damn, they built civiliian infrastructure on top of military sites? That’s both evil and cowardly as shit, I detest the occupation even more now.
Nods.
Human shield type energy right there
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?
The Israeli military should stop using Israeli citizens as human shields then.
Ooh, this is a good one.
Funny how it’s never called a terrorist attack when Israel, or any other western country, strikes an airport (or a hospital, or a school, or anything else)
woah woah woah, that’s “Good” state violence. It can’t be terrorism
only bad states and groups can do a terrorism. Mr. USA told me so!
The entire length and bredth of liberal international theory is wholly contained in that “our glorious soldiers, their barbarous hordes” image
Israel has clearly established airports as acceptable targets when they bombed the Sanaa airport when the chief of the WHO was there. This is a proportional response.
It’s not terrorism when you do your duty to do everything you are able to in order to stop an ongoing genocide.
boycott israel you coward
Such is the reality of war, civilian infrastructure such as airports, sea ports, etc, is considered dual use (capable of being used by both civilian and military) and is usually bombed. International law does not exist, it’s a facade. Hundreds of civilians were killed or injured during the US Navy and Air Force bombing of Ras Isa Fuel Port in Yemen this month (a double tap strike), including fuel truck drivers and paramedics being immolated by the resulting fires. Israel and the United States have bombed international airports repeatedly in Yemen. Outside of Yemen, both Russia and Ukraine have targeted each other’s civilian airports. The USA, Israel and the UK are effectively at war with Yemen, they’ve conducted over 1000 airstrikes 24/7 over the past 50 days, including airstrikes on airports and sea ports that have killed and injured hundreds. The decision by Ansarallah/the Houthis to target airports in Israel did not come out of thin air, it’s a symmetrical response to the strikes Yemen has been subjected to. Israel or the USA will likely respond in kind now and attack the airport in Sana’a again soon.
US, UK warplanes bomb Yemen’s Hodeidah International Airport - 18 June 2024
US bombs Hodeidah International Airport in Yemen - 23 March 2025
UN chief condemns escalation in Yemen as (Israeli) airstrikes hit Sana’a Airport, key infrastructure - 27 December 2024
The U.S. continues bombing Sana’a International Airport - 28 March 2025
Houthi-Controlled Ras Isa Port Targeted in Airstrikes by US Armed Forces - 22 April 2025
You can always refuse to fly to Israel :)
So don’t fucking go there.
What is complicity, what is innocence?
Yeah, the flight attendants and pilots working for e.g. Wizz Air are compliant with killing civilians in Palestine. Get a grip.
they could refuse to fly to the fascist outpost and thereby put a little bit more pressure on them, but i guess no. it’s all fine, they’re just doing their job ferrying people to and from a genocidal entity.
Yeah but have you considered that they weep in sorrow and have minor migraines afterwards? Oh the pain and suffering these “hapless”, “choiceless” white collar workers have to go through!
So people should just quit their jobs because the CEO of the Airline decided not to suspend flights to Israel?
the person that replied to you already provided one of many examples that people in that position could do. The people that are oppressed, that don’t have the luxury of having a permanent roof over their heads (any makeshift camps eventually gets destroyed with the people in it as well by the entity), that have their children stolen from them, whether metaphorically or literally, or become orphaned themselves, etc etc don’t get to have a say in the matter.
To equate them to fucking flight attendants that are perfectly capable of taking even the most minimal of actions, which at worst case could get them a slap on the wrist, is absurd, disgusting and vile, lib.
Are you actually this stupid or are you trying to win a world’s most obtuse fuckinv knob competition
yes
So the choices are either lose your job or support Israel?
Yep. Support genocide or quit seems like an easy question to answer.
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fuck off, a pilot can get another job
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the US government has a sovereign currency, you not paying taxes doesn’t take money out of their coffers it just causes you problems.
not that it matters but i’m too poor to pay federal taxes
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In a small way they are doing a little to legitimize the occupation by pretending it as a normal state. However the real culprit regarding the flight attendants and pilots are airlines like Wizz Air who are not only chosing to collaborate with a genocidal fascist regime but also to put their employees in harms way.
“We were just bringing tourists to Nanjing!”
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
Oh go fuck yourself sniveling coward
If you or someone close to you could have been in this Israeli airport then I wish you had been
There is a film called The Clerks, and there is a scene about collateral casualties of contractors when Luke Skywalker destroys death star.