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First Israeli Commercial Flight Through Sudan’s Airspace

First Israeli Commercial Flight Through Sudan’s Airspace
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First Israeli Commercial Flight Through Sudan’s Airspace

First Israeli Commercial Flight Through Sudan’s Airspace

El Al Israel Airlines announced on Friday operating its first commercial flight through the Sudanese airspace.

The flight will depart on Sunday from Israel’s Ben Gurion Airport to Uganda’s Entebbe Airport, for the first time since the Israeli-Sudanese normalization agreement.

The plane will depart empty but will return the same day with 153 Ugandan citizens on board to study means of modern agriculture in Israel, as part of a special project in the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

A police spokesman said the trip, which usually takes five hours, will only take 30 minutes thanks to passing through Sudanese airspace.

Meanwhile, Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz has said the “Abraham Accords” represent a conceptual shift in the Arab region.

During his meeting with EU ambassadors in Israel, Gantz urged Palestinians to join these accords and reach an agreement on the presence of “Israeli and Palestinian entities” but without Israel’s withdrawal from June 1967 borders.

These accords represent actual change in the chance to achieve peace, as well as in economic and security opportunities.

He called on Palestinians no to waste this chance to avoid lagging behind.

The fact that the PA has been seeking to obtain loans from Europe instead of receiving its tax funds affects all Palestinians, he stressed.

It is noteworthy that the US-brokered Abraham Accords is the normalization agreement signed between Israel and the United Arab Emirates on Sep. 15, 2020.

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Palestinian Officials Say Israeli Settlers Torched Cars in Ramallah

Palestinians inspect their burnt vehicles at the site where Israeli settlers attacked in Al-Bireh near the West Bank city of Ramallah, 04 November 2024. (EPA)
Palestinians inspect their burnt vehicles at the site where Israeli settlers attacked in Al-Bireh near the West Bank city of Ramallah, 04 November 2024. (EPA)
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Palestinian Officials Say Israeli Settlers Torched Cars in Ramallah

Palestinians inspect their burnt vehicles at the site where Israeli settlers attacked in Al-Bireh near the West Bank city of Ramallah, 04 November 2024. (EPA)
Palestinians inspect their burnt vehicles at the site where Israeli settlers attacked in Al-Bireh near the West Bank city of Ramallah, 04 November 2024. (EPA)

Palestinian officials said Israeli settlers were behind an attack in which several cars were torched overnight just a few kilometers (miles) away from the Palestinian Authority’s headquarters in the Israeli-occupied West Bank.

No one was wounded in the attack overnight into Monday in Al-Bireh, a city adjacent to Ramallah, where the Western-backed Palestinian Authority is headquartered. An Associated Press reporter counted 18 burned-out cars.

Settler attacks on Palestinians and their property have surged since the outbreak of the war in Gaza, which was triggered by Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023 attack into Israel.

But attacks in and around Ramallah, home to senior Palestinian officials and international missions, are rare.

The Palestinian Authority, which administers population centers in the territory, condemned the attack. Israeli police, who handle law enforcement matters involving settlers in the West Bank, said they were investigating.

Israel captured the West Bank in the 1967 Mideast war, and the Palestinians want it to form the main part of their future state. The territory’s 3 million Palestinians live under seemingly open-ended Israeli military rule, with the Palestinian Authority exercising limited autonomy over less than half of the territory.

Over 500,000 Jewish settlers with Israeli citizenship live in scores of settlements across the West Bank, which most of the international community considers illegal.