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Wizz Air, British Airways, Azerbaijan Airlines cancel Israel flights today

Wizz Air, British Airways and Azerbaijan Airlines have canceled flights to and from Ben Gurion Airport today amid increased fighting between Israel and Lebanon’s Hezbollah, Channel 12 news reports.

The Ben Gurion Airport website shows all three are no longer flying to or from Israel today.

Many airlines have only recently resumed flights, having suspended the route at various points over the year since Hamas’s devastating October 7 attack and the subsequent war. Others are still not flying due to safety concerns and travel warnings.

  • Widespread Israeli airstrikes targeting Hezbollah in southern Lebanon killed at least 492 people yesterday and injured over 1,645 more, Beirut said.
  • Hezbollah bombarded Israel with over 200 rockets yesterday, setting off sirens in northern Israel, near the bay metropolis of Haifa and as far south as some West Bank settlements near Tel Aviv, causing some damage but no major casualties.

Source: TOI

UPDATE

Qatar Airways suspends flights to Beirut

  • The Qatari national carrier said it has “temporarily suspended flights to and from Beirut Rafic Hariri International Airport” until Wednesday.

It cited the “ongoing situation in Lebanon”.

  • “The safety of our passengers remains our highest priority,” it added.

Germany’s Lufthansa, Air France and Delta Air Lines of the United States have also suspended flights to Beirut in recent days with some carriers’ services to Israel and Iran also affected.

Source: Al Jazeera