SWISS cancels Tel Aviv flights after Ben Gurion airport missile attack
Swiss cancels flight to Tel Aviv
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After a missile landed near Israel's Ben Gurion Airport, Swiss International Airlines (SWISS) cancelled flights between Zurich and Tel Aviv until the end of Tuesday, May 6*.
SWISS spokeswoman Meike Fuhlrott confirmed the cancellation of a flight on Sunday at the request of the Keystone-SDA news agency.
The SWISS flight to Tel Aviv was originally scheduled to take off from Zurich at 11:50am and land in Tel Aviv at 5:00pm local time (4:00pm Swiss time).
According to the Israeli rescue service, eight people were injured in the rocket attack. The Yemeni Houthi militia claimed responsibility for the attack. Following the attack, Israel’s Defence Minister Israel Katz threatened a counter-attack that would be many times tougher. “Whoever attacks us, we will strike back sevenfold,” he announced.
Since Israel’s army resumed its attacks in the Gaza Strip on March 18, the Houthi militia has also been regularly firing projectiles towards Israel in solidarity with the Islamist Hamas.
* This article was updated from the original version published on May 4 to include extra details.
Translated from German by DeepL/jdp
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