Brussels Airlines resumes flights to Tel Aviv on Thursday

Brussels Airlines will resume flights to Tel Aviv on Thursday 5 September. The airline announced this on Tuesday. The resumption applies to the entire German airline group Lufthansa, of which Brussels Airlines is a part.

Brussels Airlines has announced that the pilots and stewardesses will not spend the night in the Israeli city, as happened occasionally before the Hamas attack on Israel on 7 October.

The announcement comes at a time when the Federal Public Service Foreign Affairs is still strongly advising against all travel to the region.

Lufthansa, which in addition to Brussels Airlines also includes Swiss, Austrian and Eurowings, is not the first airline group to resume its flights to Tel Aviv. Air France resumed that route a week ago.

The airline's decision came after the death of Hamas leader Ismail Haniya at the end of July in the Iranian capital Tehran. It is generally assumed that Israel was behind that assassination.

Lufthansa flights to the Lebanese capital Beirut remain suspended until September 30.

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