AIR INDIA has on Friday said that it would cancel all its flights to Tel Aviv up to the 8th of August following rising tensions in the Middle East that have occasioned insecurity. It is currently observing the occurrence and providing a one-time goodwill option to waive change and cancel fees.
“Due to the ongoing situation in some parts of the Middle East, Air India is temporarily grounding its flights going to and from Tel Aviv till August 8, 2024, at the earliest,” Air India said in a post on X.
The cancellation of the Air India facility arises at the time when Israel Defense Forces (IDF) is on ’high alert’ after an archaic approach to Hezbollah’s military chief assassination in Beirut and Hamas’s leader.
On Wednesday, Ismail Haniyeh, a member of Palestinian militant group HAMAS, died through assassination shortly after attending the swearing-in of Iran’s new president. Though Israel has not officially taken responsibility for the attack, Iran has blamed the US for the incident and promised to retaliate.
It is in this context that the recent assassination has taken place in the line of a Hezbollah commander, Fouad Shukur, who was killed in an Israeli airstrike in Beirut the other day.
Shukur was killed in the Golan Heights through a rocket attack; 12 people were killed in the attack, an event that Hezbollah distanced itself from. The situation in the Middle East is still volatile, and both Hamas and Hezbollah declared that they will not sit idle and will attack Israel in return.
Flights operated by Middle East Airlines have been cancelled, and the remaining airlines tend to bypass Iran and Lebanon airspace over the fear of a possible conflict in the region occasioned by Thursday’s assassination of Hamas and Hezbollah key operativ
