Swiss cancels flights to and from Beirut on Wednesday
Published: Tuesday, Jan 2nd 2024, 22:30
Updated At: Tuesday, Jan 2nd 2024, 22:30
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The airline Swiss has canceled flights to and from Beirut on Wednesday. The reason is the security situation in the Lebanese capital. The two flights affected are Zurich - Beirut and Beirut - Zurich.
Swiss is trying to find alternative solutions for the passengers affected, it said in a statement on Tuesday evening. The next Swiss flights to and from Beirut are scheduled for Saturday (January 6). Further flights are planned until January 13, after which Swiss will not operate the route during the winter months (until March 22).
Swiss continues to monitor the security situation in the Middle East closely and is in close contact with local and international authorities, the statement continued.
On Tuesday, Saleh al-Aruri, deputy chairman of the Palestinian terrorist organization Hamas, was killed in an airstrike in Beirut. Aruri is considered a co-founder of the military arm of Hamas, which immediately blamed Israel for the airstrike. There was initially no comment from Israel.
Swiss flights to Beirut were suspended after the terrorist attack on Israel by the Islamist group Hamas on October 7 and only resumed on December 16.
Hamas had invaded Israel from the Gaza Strip and massacred, raped and abducted around 1200 Jewish civilians at dawn. Since then, the Israeli army has been fighting in the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip to free Israeli hostages and destroy Hamas. According to the latter, over 20,000 civilians, most of them Palestinian, have lost their lives.
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