ADEN/SANAA- Yemen's Houthi group announced Sunday it had conducted military operations against Ben Gurion Airport in Israel and several US naval vessels including an aircraft carrier in the Red Sea.

In a televised statement broadcast on the group's Al-Masirah channel, Houthi military spokesman Yahya Sarea said the group's missile forces targeted Ben Gurion Airport near Tel Aviv with a "Palestine II" hypersonic ballistic missile.

"The operation successfully achieved its goal, leading to the suspension of air traffic at the airport for more than half an hour," Sarea claimed.

Meanwhile, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said a ballistic missile fired at Israel by the Houthis in Yemen on Sunday morning was successfully intercepted by air defenses.

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There were no reports of injuries or damage from the attack, which triggered sirens across central Israel, said the IDF, confirming the missile was shot down before it crossed the country's borders.

The Houthi spokesman also claimed that militant forces engaged the US aircraft carrier USS Harry Truman and other American warships in the Red Sea with "a number of missiles and drones," with clashes reportedly lasting several hours.

According to Sarea, the military actions were taken "in response to the American aggression, which has launched dozens of raids on Yemen in the past hours."

The announcement follows intensified US military operations against Houthi-controlled areas in Yemen. American fighter jets conducted multiple strikes targeting Hodeidah Airport with at least six raids, as well as the port of Salif in Hodeidah during the past hours.

The US military stationed in the Red Sea conducted fresh airstrikes on Yemen's northern province of Saada on Sunday evening, al-Masirah TV reported.

The strikes targeted the areas around the province's namesake central city Saada, a stronghold of the Houthis, the television said without providing further details.

The airstrikes came a few hours after the Houthis claimed to have launched fresh attacks on the USS Harry S. Truman aircraft carrier in the northern Red Sea and the Ben Gurion airport in central Israel, with the latter attack reportedly intercepted by the Israeli army.

The exchanges of fire took place amid an ongoing air campaign launched by US forces in mid-March against Houthi-controlled territories in Yemen. The Houthi group, which controls much of northern Yemen after a civil war since 2014, has vowed to continue striking Israeli targets in solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza and to respond to what it describes as "American aggression."