Yemeni Missile Disrupts Israeli State Cup Final, Herzog Evacuated

A missile launched by Ansarallah disrupted Israel’s State Cup final. (Photo: video grab)

By Palestine Chronicle Staff  

A missile launched by Ansarallah disrupted Israel’s State Cup final and temporarily halted air traffic at Ben Gurion Airport.

A missile launched from Yemen on Thursday disrupted the final match of the Israeli State Cup between Hapoel Be’er Sheva and Beitar Jerusalem, held at Bloomfield Stadium in Tel Aviv and attended by Israeli President Isaac Herzog.

The match was paused twice—first due to the missile and again amid racist chants from fans. 

According to Israeli media, Herzog was evacuated from the stadium platform to a secure location as sirens echoed across central areas of occupied Palestine.

The Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth reported scenes of panic among thousands of spectators, who were instructed to lie flat on the stadium floor within minutes of the sirens. 

Simultaneously, air traffic at Ben Gurion Airport was temporarily suspended.

The Israeli military later announced it had intercepted the missile, claiming in a statement that “one missile launched from the direction of Yemen was intercepted.”

This strike comes amid ongoing operations by the Yemeni resistance group Ansarallah, which has repeatedly declared its support for the Palestinian people and targeted Israeli-linked maritime and military assets in response to the genocide in Gaza. 

Ansarallah leadership stressed that their operations will continue as long as the war on Gaza does.

Since October 2023, Ansarallah has targeted ships bound for Israeli ports and expanded its reach across the Red Sea and beyond, framing its actions as part of a response to Israel’s military campaign and Western complicity.

Ongoing Genocide

Since Israel’s reneging on the ceasefire on March 18, it has killed and wounded thousands of Palestinians throughout the Gaza Strip through a bloody and ongoing aerial bombardment.

On October 7, 2023, following a Palestinian Resistance operation in southern Israel, the Israeli military launched a genocidal war against the Palestinians, killing over 54,000, wounding more than 123,000, with over 14,000 still missing.

Despite habitual condemnation by many countries around the world of the Israeli genocide, little has been done to hold Israel accountable.

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Israel is currently under investigation for the crime of genocide by the International Court of Justice, while accused war criminals — including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu — are now officially wanted by the International Criminal Court.

The Israeli genocide has been largely defended, supported, and financed by Washington and a few other Western powers.

(PC, AJA)

5 Comments

  1. ” occupied Palestine. ”
    i think those words should always be capitalized in every article where they appear. It’s good seeing the Israeli squatters paralyzed with fear, scattering like the cockroaches they are. Most of them are racist sociopaths. They need to leave OCCUPIED PALESTINE and go back to whichever European countries they came from. To hell with Wasrael.

  2. The Palestinian media has consistently lied about the number of killed and wounded. If they are serious about ending the Genocide then by all means free the hostages. If that’s not an option then don’t complain about “innocent civilians.”

    • It would have been better if your real estate agent of a god granted you a brain instead of “promising” you a land to which you are not entitled. That would have spared us the BS you are spewing and all the already refuted lies that you have been advocating ad nauseam. First, the number of Palestinian casualities has been confirmed by several international organisations such as the UN. A few months ago, The Lancet published a report that the numbers are probably even higher than what Hamas announced. Furthermore, there is an ever growing list of names of those who were killed which isn’t that hard to find. But you keep lying,providing no evidence to your claims and expect us to believe it

    • second, Hamas has offered since the beginning to free the zionist prisoners in exchange for all the 10000+ Palestinian hostages from all ages held in inhumane conditions while they were beaten and raped. Why did your scumbag “government” rejected that proposal if they wanted “the hostages” back? Why did they renege on a ceasefire that could have brought all squatters back? Besides, I have one more question to you: If the “hostages” were your priority, then why the statements of many of your officials contradict that? Smotrich, the Ukrainian squatter explicitly said that they were not a priority, and so did the other scumbag ben-gvir. Sooner or later, your defeat is looming in the horizon.

  3. Trying to achieve what overated military might can’t via ceasefire manipulations looks cheap to me.
    David should note that.
    Israel has achieved near nothing in 600 days against a besieged starved defenceless Palestinians.
    Real war is between combatants just like a real contest is between contestants not spectators.
    War is not about showing off but for a just cause and we all know killing of babies, children, women, elderly and other non combatants is an evil cause.
    World knows better now and ALLAH knows best always.

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