The Houthi terrorist organization said on Sunday night that they are working on imposing a "comprehensive air blockade" on Israel by repeatedly targeting the country's airports.
Three people were mildly wounded earlier that morning as a result of a missile fired by the Yemen-based terror group that crashed in the area of Ben-Gurion Airport's Terminal 3.
The IDF's failure to intercept the missile was due to a technical error, Israeli military sources told The Jerusalem Post.
Houthi military spokesman Brig.-Gen. Yahya Saree posted on Telegram that the missile strike was in response to expand its operations against Hamas in the Gaza Strip. The decision to expand operations was agreed upon by the Israeli security cabinet on Friday night. Several IDF reserve brigades will be mobilized for the operation's expansion.
Houthis call on airlines to 'take into consideration' their operations
The Yemen-based terror organization "calls upon all international airlines to take into consideration" their plans to target Israeli airports, Saree said in his Telegram post, and also recommended that airlines "cancel all schedules flights to the airports of the 'criminal enemy' to preserve the safety of their aircraft and their agents."
The Israeli security cabinet also decided on responding to the Houthis after the missile attack at the airport hours after it occurred. Another Israeli source told the Post on Sunday that Israel is considering revising its recent policies on Yemen in its response.
“We’ve acted against them in the past, and we’ll act again in the future," Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said.
Yonah Jeremy Bob and Reuters contributed to this report.