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The bulletins got here after Israel launched air strikes in opposition to Hezbollah in Lebanon whereas the Lebanese group mentioned it had delivered a drone and rocket barrage throughout the border.
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The bulletins got here after Israel launched air strikes in opposition to Hezbollah in Lebanon whereas the Lebanese group mentioned it had delivered a drone and rocket barrage throughout the border
British Airways and Air France on Sunday suspended flights to Tel Aviv, after the largest clashes between Israel and Lebanon’s Iran-backed Hezbollah armed group for the reason that begin of the warfare in Gaza.
BA mentioned it was suspending its flights to and from Tel Aviv till Wednesday, whereas the French service suspended providers to Tel Aviv and Beirut scheduled for Sunday and Monday.
“We’ve been frequently monitoring the state of affairs within the Center East and have taken the operational resolution to droop our flights to and from Tel Aviv as much as and together with Wednesday 28 August,” a spokesman for BA mentioned.
“Security is all the time our high precedence, and we’re contacting prospects to advise them of their journey choices.”
The bulletins got here after Israel launched air strikes in opposition to Hezbollah in Lebanon whereas the Lebanese group mentioned it had delivered a drone and rocket barrage throughout the border.
The exchanges marked an intensification of hostilities fuelled by Israel’s ongoing assault in opposition to Hamas in Gaza, sparked by that militant group’s lethal assault on Israel on October 7.
Air France, which normally runs a each day service to each cities, had already halted flights to Beirut between July 29 and August 15, however had stored flying to Tel Aviv.
Air France’s subsidiary Transavia, which serves each locations, can be halting its flights, the spokesman mentioned.
Any resumption of providers to the 2 locations will depend upon the results of a brand new evaluation of the safety state of affairs, Air France mentioned in a press release.
German airline Lufthansa on Friday prolonged its Beirut flight suspension to the tip of September, and mentioned it will not fly to Tel Aviv and Tehran till September 2.
Hungarian low-cost airline Wizz Air in the meantime additionally mentioned Sunday it was briefly suspending its flights between Luton Airport, close to London, and Israel because of the escalation, Britain’s PA information company reported.
One other main service, Virgin Atlantic, mentioned it was extending till September 25 its earlier suspension of its each day flight from Heathrow to Tel Aviv after a safety evaluate.
(This story has not been edited by News18 employees and is printed from a syndicated information company feed – AFP)
