Following the Houthi rebels’ missile shooting on Sunday, May 4 near Tel Aviv airport, many airlines decided to suspend their flights towards Israel. Among them, Air France, who said he had canceled two flights to the Hebrew State.
Air France said on Sunday that it had canceled its two flights of the day connecting Paris and Tel Aviv after the shooting of a missile against Ben Gurion International Airport, without deciding for the time to suspend its affair unlike several other international companies.
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“For the moment, only today’s flights have been canceled”, between the airports Paris-Charles de Gaulle and Ben Gurion “and the passengers who wanted it were postponed to the flights of tomorrow and the day after tomorrow,” the press service of the French national company in the middle of the afternoon told AFP.
-Traffic resumed in Tel Aviv
A missile shot, claimed by the Yemen Houthis rebels, hit the area of Ben-Gourion, near Tel Aviv on Sunday. Air traffic resumed there after a brief suspension.
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The Lufthansa and Air India companies nevertheless suspended their flights to Tel Aviv until May 6 and British Airways, until May 7.
According to an AFP photographer, the missile fell into an area planted with trees next to an access ramp to the parking lots of Terminal 3, the most important of the airport. The Israeli aid reported six injured.
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