By Ed Newman, Radio Havana Cuba.

A senior official with Yemen’s Ansarullah movement has warned that the Yemeni Armed Forces will carry out military strikes targeting Tel Aviv’s Ben Gurion international airport and other airports across Israel in the coming hours.

Nasr al-Din Amer, deputy head of Ansarullah’s Media Authority, made the warning in a statement on Sunday, a few hours after he declared all Israeli airports unsafe zones.

He said: “This is due to the recent Israeli escalation against the Gaza Strip and the aggression against Yemen, and in continuation of the Yemeni leadership’s decision to impose a ban on this airport and other airports, in addition to the naval blockade and closure of the Umm al Rashrash port [which the Israelis call Eilat] until the aggression stops and the siege on Gaza is lifted,…”.

The Ansarullah official further called on all airlines remaining at Ben Gurion airport to depart immediately, warning all passengers, especially foreigners, to leave for their own safety.

Yemen’s Ansarullah resistance movement has declared all airports across the Israeli-occupied territories unsafe zones, escalating their retaliatory missile and drone strikes on the Ben
Gurion airport, in solidarity with Palestinians enduring a genocidal war in Gaza.

Earlier in the day, Amer discussed plans to impose a “no-fly zone” over Israeli airports, stressing that retaliatory attacks on the occupied territories would persist until the Zionist regime ceases its aggression against Gaza.

The warning came as Yemen’s Armed Forces launched two more ballistic missiles toward the occupied territories that targeted Ben Gurion airport in Tel Aviv.

Yemen’s Armed Forces have carried out pro-Gaza operations and enforced a naval blockade on Israeli ships and vessels sailing towards the territories since late 2023.

Earlier in May, Yemeni forces began imposing a comprehensive aerial blockade on Israel too, warning international airlines to suspend flights to Israeli airports to ensure passenger safety.