International Courant
JERUSALEM
Ten international airways canceled their flights to Israel on Sunday amid a cross-border escalation with the Lebanese group Hezbollah.
In accordance with Israeli public broadcaster KAN, main carriers, together with Air France and the Dutch Transavia, have suspended their operations in Israel.
Different airways that canceled flights embody the Hungarian Wizz Air, Malta-based Corendon, Ethiopian Airways, the Greek Aegean Airways, and the Greek Common Airways.
Air France, which canceled its flights between Paris and Tel Aviv, was one of many few main worldwide airways nonetheless working in Israel.
Since late July, 20 worldwide airways have canceled their flights to Israel, pushed by rising fears of a possible regional warfare within the Center East.
Israeli warplanes launched over 40 airstrikes on southern Lebanon early Sunday, probably the most extreme assault since cross-border assaults with Hezbollah started on Oct. 8, 2023. The Israeli military claimed that the strikes aimed to stop an impending Hezbollah assault.
The Lebanese group, for its half, mentioned it launched lots of of missiles and drones deep into Israel within the “first section” of its response to final month’s assassination of its commander Fouad Shukr in Beirut.
Since October 8, 2023, Hezbollah has been engaged in every day exchanges of fireside with the Israeli military throughout the Lebanese-Israeli border, leading to lots of of casualties, totally on the Lebanese facet.
The escalation comes in opposition to the backdrop of a brutal Israeli warfare on the Gaza Strip, which killed over 40,400 Palestinians since final Oct. 7 after a Hamas assault. The army marketing campaign has lowered a lot of the territory to rubble and left most people homeless, hungry and susceptible to illness.
* Writing by Ikram Kouachi
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