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A drone shot by the Huti militants in Yemen violated Israel’s aerial defenses on Sunday and crashed into the southern airport of the country, said the Israeli army.

He was one of the various drones fired by the hutis, according to the military, but said that most had been intercepted outside Israel.

The drone crashed into the passenger terminal at the Ramón International Airport, near the tourist city of Eilat, said the Israeli airport authority, exploiting glass windows and sending wavy smoke feathers.

The Hutis acclaimed Sunday’s attack on Ramón airport, about 19 kilometers (12 miles) of Eilat at the southern end of Israel, as “a unique and qualitative military operation.”

“Enemy airports are insecure, and foreigners must leave them for their own security,” Nasruddin Amer, deputy director of the Houthi Media Office, wrote on social networks. “Other sensitive objectives are under fire.”

The emergency rescue service Magen David David de Israel said he was treated a 63 -year -old man for light shrapnel wounds. The damage to Ramón airport seemed limited, and in a couple of hours, it was reopened as normal flights resumed.

The attack comes days after Israelí attacks the capital of Sanaa, in Yemen, Prime Minister Houthi, Ahmed al-Rahawi, and other officials in his cabinet in a large escalation of the conflict of almost 2 years between Israel and the militant group backed by Iran in Yemen.

Saying that they were acting in solidarity with the Palestinians, the Hutis began shooting missiles and drones to Israel after the October 7 attack on Hamas lit the devastating Israeli army campaign in Gaza.

The hutis have intensified their air attacks against Israel in recent months, even displaying eyelets with cluster ammunition. They disperse smaller explosive projectiles in a large area and are more difficult for Israel’s air defense system to stop, which otherwise intercepts most drones and missiles.

Houthi attacks against Israel, although frequent from the Israel-Ahamas War in October 2023, rarely caused important damage or have affected significant objectives such as airports. But in May, an Hutí missile hit near the main airport of Ben Gurion in Israelwhich takes many international airlines to cancel flights to Tel Aviv for months.

Israel pushes forward with the operation of the city of Gaza

The Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, promised to advance with the operation of Israel in the city of Gaza, without a progress reported in the restart of negotiations between Israel and Hamas.

“Our effort in Gaza in the last strengths, in reality, the last important strength, the city of Gaza, is part of our effort to complete the crushing of the drowning of the Iranian axis,” Netanyahu said at the beginning of the weekly meeting of the cabinet in Jerusalem.

Netanyahu said that more than 100,000 Palestinians have attended the calls of the military to evacuate the city of Gaza before the operation, a figure played by international organizations. The United Nations have reported only 41,000 people from the population of 1 million of the city that come out during the last month.

Meanwhile, attempts to relaunch negotiations between Israel and Hamas are hesitating.

Bassem Naim, a member of the Hamas political office, said the militant group will not leave their weapons until the establishment of an independent Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital. But he said that Hamas is ready for a long -term truce and will release the hostages that still stop in Gaza in exchange for several Palestinians imprisoned by Israel and the complete withdrawal of Israeli troops of Gaza.

Naim said Hamas is still waiting for Israel to respond to a 60 -day fire fire proposal prepared by Egyptian mediators and Qatari last month.

The prime minister’s office refused to comment on the negotiations.

There are still 48 hostages in Gaza, about 20 of which Israel believes they are still alive. Militants kidnapped 251 people and killed about 1,200 people in southern Israel during the attack that caused the war on October 7, 2023.

The Gaza Ministry of Health led by Hamas said that a total of 64,368 people have been killed and 162,776 have been injured since the beginning of the war. The ministry does not differ between civilians and combatants, but says that more than half of the victims were women and children.

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