After a final flight on Friday, SWISS airline is temporarily no longer bringing Swiss citizens back home from Israel on special flights. It has cancelled two evacuation flights planned for Saturday at short notice.
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The reason for the decision is security concerns. The Israeli government’s ultimatum to Hamas will end on Saturday morning, the airline said on Friday afternoon. From then on, a ground offensive by Israel in the Gaza Strip and a further escalation of violence could be expected. It was therefore not justifiable to operate the flights for the time being.
The decision does not affect the fourth special flight, which is scheduled to land in Zurich on Friday evening.
SWISS already flew more than 200 people back to Switzerland on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday.
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