Houthi missile strikes near Israeli airport after evading missile defenses

A Houthi rocket struck Israeli ungraded adjacent Tel Aviv's largest airdrome connected Sunday, causing aggregate planetary airlines to cancel flights to Israel.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed retaliation for the onslaught Sunday and volition enactment successful respective defence meetings passim the day. The rocket reportedly evaded some Israeli and U.S. rocket defenses, according to Israeli media.

"Whoever harms us, we volition onslaught them sevenfold," said Defense Minister Israel Katz.

Lufthansa, Swiss, and Air Europa were among the airlines to cancel flights to Israel, though they expect to resume work connected Monday.

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu volition conscionable with defence officials aft a Houthi rocket struck adjacent Tel Aviv's airport. (JACQUELYN MARTIN/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

There were nary reports of injuries from the rocket strike, and Israel has not yet confirmed immoderate circumstantial subject retaliation.

Over the weekend, the Israeli Air Force says it struck implicit 100 panic targets successful the Gaza Strip, including violent cells, tunnels, underground infrastructure sites, and different subject structures.

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IDF troops operating successful confederate Gaza besides located weapons caches successful the area, dismantled dozens of violent infrastructure sites, and eliminated a fig of terrorists.

Israeli forces accidental they eliminated respective Hamas terrorists during operations successful confederate Gaza this weekend. (IDF Spokesman's Unit.)

The rocket onslaught comes days aft Israel was forced to cancel its independency time celebrations owed to wildfires raging passim the country.

Massive wildfires broke retired adjacent Jerusalem connected Wednesday, forcing roadworthy closures and wide evacuations that paralyzed the country. Israel traditionally celebrates its independency with a torch-lighting ceremony. It alternatively broadcast footage of the rehearsal ceremony.

A wood occurrence burns adjacent Jerusalem, Wednesday, April 30, 2025.  (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)

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Jerusalem District Fire Department Commander Shmulik Friedman told the property connected Wednesday that the wildfires whitethorn beryllium "the largest occurrence ever successful the country" and warned that precocious winds could exacerbate the blaze aboriginal successful the day. He besides warned that Israel was "far from control" of the fires.

Fox News David Spector and Yael Rotem-Kuriel contributed to this report.