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.
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
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.
Maybe Israel shouldn't hide behind human shields
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.
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?
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.
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.
The Israeli military should stop using Israeli citizens as human shields then.
Ooh, this is a good one.
There is a film called The Clerks, and there is a scene about collateral casualties of contractors when Luke Skywalker destroys death star.
"We were just bringing tourists to Nanjing!"
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.
So people should just quit their jobs because the CEO of the Airline decided not to suspend flights to Israel?
So the choices are either lose your job or support Israel?
Yep. Support genocide or quit seems like an easy question to answer.
fuck off, a pilot can get another job
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
Israel said they are 'at war'. if you want to fly to and aid genocidaires in a war zone, that's your problem, not ours.
You're aware that airline workers have no choice on where the airline flies to, right? If I get a TLV flight in my roster I can't not go to work because Israel is commiting genocide in Palestine.
Actually you can
Sure you can! Just walk out. You can leave! If it sucks, hit da bricks!!
They actually do. They can refuse to fly there. Israel's victims, those people have no choice.
I have no idea where you live, but where I live one can refuse to work if it is unsafe. Or you could just object on moral grounds and get a different job. Or you can just keep complaining online.
"accidentally" break something on the plane if you're too chickenshit to walk out.
Go on strike you fucking loser
You can actually. It would be pretty commendable as well.
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.
boycott israel you coward
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
It's not terrorism when you do your duty to do everything you are able to in order to stop an ongoing genocide.
You can always refuse to fly to Israel :)
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