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02.10.26 - 22:09
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Airlines Plan ′Rescue Flights′ For Stranded Israelis In UAE After FlyDubai Incident (ZeroHedge)
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Airlines Plan 'Rescue Flights' For Stranded Israelis In UAE After FlyDubai Incident
Via The Cradle
Israeli national airline El Al announced on Friday that it had canceled flights scheduled to bring Israelis home from Dubai after the UAE withdrew landing permits for Israeli carriers.
"Due to the cancellation of approval for Israeli companies to land in Dubai, as was reported by the authorities in Israel, we are forced to cancel, at this stage, our rescue flights," the airline said in a statement posted on social media.
AFP/Getty ImagesEl Al said it remains prepared to operate charter flights to Dubai to bring Israeli citizens home as soon as it receives official approval.
The Israeli airline did not explain why the landing permits had been withdrawn. Emirati authorities have not provided an explanation.
Israeli passengers were stranded in the UAE after an incident on a FlyDubai flight from Dubai to Tel Aviv. The plane's copilot allegedly stabbed the captain and tried to crash the a...
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13.09.26 - 17:12
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UAE Meets With Iran Leaders As Tehran Teases Oman Shipping Deal (ZeroHedge)
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UAE Meets With Iran Leaders As Tehran Teases Oman Shipping Deal
Encouraging diplomatic signals emerged from the Gulf area this weekend as Abu Dhabi's crown prince met Iran's president amid efforts to secure a deal allowing more vessel transits through the highly contested Strait of Hormuz. However, the hopeful signs of de-escalation were overshadowed by days of mounting threats to alternative export routes, with Iran-backed Houthis capturing a strategic island inside another maritime chokepoint in the southern Red Sea and drone attacks shutting Saudi Arabia's East-West pipeline.
Bloomberg cites the UAE's state-run WAM news agency, which reported Sunday that Sheik Khaled bin Mohamed Al Nahyan and President Masoud Pezeshkian discussed de-escalation plans on the sidelines of the BRICS summit in India. The meeting comes as Oman seeks broader de-escalation by bringing Iran and Gulf Cooperation Council members together to discuss shipping access to the Hormuz chokepoint.
Pezeshkian has called fo...
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