Delta Air Lines announced it would cancel flights between Tel Aviv and New York due to the “ongoing conflict in the region.”
Delta Air Lines announced on Wednesday that it would cancel flights between Tel Aviv’s Ben Gurion Airport and New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK), Reuters news agency reported, without providing further details.
The airline’s website indicates that the cancellation is due to the “ongoing conflict in the region.”
“Delta is continuously monitoring the security environment in Israel to inform cancellations to our flight schedule to and from Ben Gurion Airport in Tel Aviv,” the note read.
"The US-Israeli strategy of attempting to tie the destiny of the Arab world with Tel Aviv and to crush the idea of Palestinian resistance to occupation failed on October 7."
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— The Palestine Chronicle (@PalestineChron) October 28, 2023
Israel has, thus far, killed over 8,796 Palestinians in Gaza, including 3,648 children and 2,290 women, and wounded more than 23,000 since the beginning of the war, on October 7.
Palestinian Ministry of Health reports and international organizations say that the majority of those killed and wounded are women and children.
(The Palestine Chronicle)
