International Courant
BEIRUT
Beirut’s worldwide airport is working usually, although some flights have been delayed because of the escalation between Hezbollah and Israel in southern Lebanon, the nation’s aviation authorities introduced Sunday.
“The Common Directorate of Civil Aviation denied in a press release as we speak what was circulated by some media retailers in regards to the cancellation of all flights to and from Beirut Worldwide Airport,” Lebanon’s Nationwide Information Company reported.
The directorate defined that some flights skilled delays and that the airport continues to function usually, added the company.
Earlier on Sunday, Royal Jordanian Airways introduced the suspension of its flights to and from Beirut because of the latest escalation between Hezbollah and Israel.
Israeli warplanes launched over 40 airstrikes on southern Lebanon early Sunday, probably the most extreme assault since cross-border assaults with Hezbollah started final October. The Israeli military claimed that the strikes aimed to stop an impending Hezbollah assault.
The Lebanese group, for its half, stated it launched a whole lot of missiles and drones deep into Israel within the “first part” of its response to final month’s assassination of its commander Fouad Shukr in Beirut.
Since Oct. 8, 2023, Hezbollah has been engaged in every day exchanges of fireplace with the Israeli military throughout the Blue Line, leading to a whole lot of casualties, totally on the Lebanese aspect.
The escalation comes towards the backdrop of the struggle in Gaza, the place Israel has killed greater than 40,400 Palestinians since an Oct. 7, 2023 incursion by Hamas. The navy marketing campaign has decreased a lot of the territory to rubble and left the general public homeless, hungry, and vulnerable to illness.
*Writing by Rania Abu Shamala
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