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Atak w okolicach lotniska w Tel Awiwie. PLL LOT i Wizzair zawieszają połączenia z Warszawy i Krakowa

May5

Samolot PLL LOT (zdjęcie ilustracyjne) (Fot. Roman Bosiacki / Agencja Wyborcza.pl)

Atak w okolicach lotniska w Tel Awiwie. PLL LOT i Wizzair zawieszają połączenia z Warszawy i Krakowa

Rafał Górski / Jerzy Adamiak/PAP

Zpowodu ataku pociskiem balistycznym na Tel Awiw, linie lotnicze PLL LOT odwołały niedzielne loty do lotniska Ben Guriona. Węgierski Wizz Air ogłosił, że wstrzymuje wszystkie loty do Tel Awiwu na 48 godzin, do wtorkowego poranka.

Rakieta balistyczna uderzyła w okolice głównego portu lotniczego w Izraelu, lotniska Ben Guriona, 15 km na południe od Tel Awiwu. – Pocisk uderzył w zagajnik przylegający do jednej z dróg technicznych na terenie lotniska – poinformował portal Times of Israel. Pocisk spadł na drogę dojazdową do głównego terminalu. Izraelskie służby poinformowały o kilku lekko rannych osobach oraz półgodzinnym wstrzymaniu operacji lotniczych.

Niedzielny atak ma swoje reperkusje dla osób podróżujących do Izraela. Linie lotnicze Lufthansa, Delta, British Airways i Air India poinformowały w niedzielę po południu, że ze względu na bezpieczeństwo pasażerów zawieszają połączenia z Tel Awiwem. Z kolei Polskie Linie Lotnicze LOT poinformowały, że wieczorne loty z Warszawy i Krakowa zostały odwołane.  

– Wieczorny lot w niedzielę rejsowego samolotu PLL LOT z Warszawy do Tel Awiwu został odwołany. Na lotnisko Ben Guriona nie odleciał również samolot LOT-u z Krakowa” – powiedział Polskiej Agencji Prasowej rzecznik LOT-u Krzysztof Moczulski. Dodał, że decyzje ws. późniejszych połączeń PLL LOT będą podejmowały po analizie sytuacji na lotnisku Ben Guriona pod kątem bezpieczeństwa.

Węgierski Wizz Air ogłosił, że wstrzymuje wszystkie loty do Tel Awiwu na 48 godzin, do wtorkowego poranka. Grupa Lufthansa, do której należą też austriackie oraz szwajcarskie linie lotnicze, a także tani przewoźnicy jak Eurowings oraz udziały we włoskich liniach ITA Airways, przekazała, że zawiesza połączenia z lotniskiem Ben Guriona do wtorku.

Amerykańska Delta odwołała niedzielne i poniedziałkowe połączenia między portem Ben Guriona a nowojorskim lotniskiem JFK. Linie lotnicze United latające z amerykańskiego lotniska Newark do Izraela wstrzymały te rejsy co najmniej do czwartku. British Airways odwołał loty do Tel Awiwu do środy. Do wtorku zawieszono loty Air India na lotnisko Ben Guriona – przekazały indyjskie linie lotnicze.

Air France na razie anulowały rejsy w niedzielę.

Swoje połączenia czasowo zawiesiły też m.in. linie Iberia, Ryanair, Air Canada, Nippon Airway i Azerbaijan Airlines.

Jak podaje PAP, bez zakłóceń działają na razie przewoźnicy izraelscy, El Al, Arkia i Israir, oraz m.in. greckie linie Aegean, flydubai ze Zjednoczonych Emiratów Arabskich czy Ethiopian.

Do ataku przyznała się rebeliancka grupa Huti. To rebelianci z Jemenu, wspierani przez Iran od początku wybuchu wojny w Strefie Gazy. Specjalizują się w atakach rakietami i dronami. Niedzielny atak był piątym, w ciągu ostatnich dwóch dni. Jednak większość pocisków lecących w stronę Ziemi Świętej jest przechwytywana przez izraelską armię. Tym razem system obrony zawiódł. 

Rzecznik Huti Jahja Saria oświadczył, że użyto „hipersonicznego pocisku balistycznego”. Dodał, że atak został przeprowadzony “w odwecie za zbrodnie ludobójstwa Izraela na mieszkańcach Strefy Gazy”.

Do podobnego ataku doszło w marcu. Wtedy systemy zadziałały i rakieta wystrzelona w lotnisko Ben Guriona padła łupem obrony powietrznej.

Redagował Wojciech Tymowski

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Israeli Security Cabinet approves expanding war against Hamas in Gaza

May5
Israeli Security Cabinet approves expanding war against Hamas in Gaza

JNS Staff

“We are increasing the pressure with the goal of bringing our [captive] people back and defeating Hamas,” said IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir.

Israeli troops participate in a counter-terror operation in the area of the Indonesian Hospital in Beit Lahia, northern Gaza, December 2024. Credit: IDF.

Israel’s Security Cabinet voted unanimously on Sunday night to expand the IDF offensive against the Hamas terrorist organization in the Gaza Strip.

The approved plans include “occupying Gaza and holding on to the territory,” as well as “powerful strikes” on Hamas, a source in the Prime Minister’s Office told reporters.

The ministers also approved plans to possibly resume aid to the coastal enclave through an international fund that would seek to prevent the supplies from being looted by Hamas. Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir was the sole minister to oppose the move.

The distribution of aid is expected to be carried out by the American security companies that inspected vehicles returning to Gaza’s north during the January-March ceasefire.

An Israeli official quoted by the Walla outlet said that the expanded ground operation will likely only be carried out after U.S. President Donald Trump’s expected visit to the Middle East ends next week.

Earlier on Sunday, IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir said that the military was calling up tens of thousands of additional reservists.

“This week, we are issuing tens of thousands of call-up orders to our reservists in order to intensify and expand our operation in Gaza,” Zamir told members of the Flotilla 13 naval commando unit. “We are increasing the pressure with the goal of bringing our people back and defeating Hamas. We will operate in additional areas and destroy all infrastructure above and below ground.”

Defense sources noted that the mobilization is one of the largest since the war began 19 months ago, with newly called-up reservists being integrated into training and operational deployments.

Zamir spoke as the Security Cabinet convened in Jerusalem to discuss the next phase of the military campaign.

“I am assembling the Cabinet today to discuss the next stage of the IDF chief of staff’s proposal,” said Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. “I cannot detail it here, but we are focusing on two things: returning our hostages and defeating Hamas. Military pressure works—and this is what will work now as well,” he added, noting that 147 hostages have been rescued alive so far.

In a separate statement, the IDF confirmed that Israeli forces continue to operate across the Gaza Strip to dismantle terrorist infrastructure and protect Israeli civilians. The 205th “Iron Fist” Reserve Armored Brigade is active in Rafah, in Gaza’s southernmost region, where it has destroyed Hamas positions above and below ground and killed dozens of terrorists.

The IDF also reported the discovery of a weapons depot located 260 feet from a former school and approximately 330 feet from a former hospital in Rafah.

Over the weekend, IDF troops, operating in coordination with the Israel Security Agency (Shin Bet), carried out extensive operations across the Gaza Strip. In Gaza City, reservists from the Jerusalem Brigade, operating under the 252nd “Sinai” Division, continued to engage Hamas operatives in the Shejaiya neighborhood, dismantling underground infrastructure and seizing weapons caches.

The Israeli Air Force attacked more than 100 terrorist targets throughout Gaza, including tunnel shafts, command centers and structures used by armed cells, the military said. Ground forces located and destroyed additional weapons and killed several terrorists.

In one such strike, the IDF destroyed armed and launch-ready Hamas rocket platforms in the Khan Yunis area that were aimed at Israeli territory. Explosions observed after the strike indicated the presence of multiple rockets prepared for launch. The military said it would continue acting forcefully and decisively against all terrorist groups in Gaza.

Despite ongoing strikes, the IDF assesses that Hamas maintains at least two organized brigades and continues to pose a threat. However, Israeli officials have noted that recent military and humanitarian pressure is hurting the group’s ability to operate. Some Hamas fighters have surrendered, and the terrorist organization’s command and control systems have sustained significant damage.

Israeli Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer, who has led negotiations for a hostage deal, reiterated at the JNS International Policy Summit last week that Israel remains committed both to defeating Hamas and securing the release of all hostages.

“There are people in Israel who say, forget about the hostages—just finish the war. Others say, forget about the war—just bring them home. We’re not going to do that,” said Dermer. “That’s not where Prime Minister Netanyahu is. It’s not where I am.”

He predicted that 12 months from now, the multi-front conflict facing Israel across the Middle East will be over—and that “Israel will have won.”

Israel’s stated objectives in the war remain the dismantling of Hamas as a political and military force, the return of all hostages, and the prevention of Gaza from posing a future security threat.

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Ehud Barak calls for civil insurrection to collapse government

May5
Ehud Barak calls for civil insurrection to collapse government

David Isaac

The former prime minister called for hundreds of thousands to shut down the country until the government falls.

Former prime minister Ehud Barak speaks at the Haaretz Democracy Conference in Jaffa, Nov. 9, 2021. Photo by Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90.

Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak on Saturday repeated his call for a civil insurrection to topple the Netanyahu government.

“We need to get to a civil insurrection,” said Barak, during an appearance on “Moriah & Berko,” a Channel 13 news show co-hosted by Moriah Ashraf and Eyal Bercovic.

Asked to explain what that meant, Barak said he meant hundreds of thousands taking to the streets guided by political, academic, high-tech and market leaders, among others.

When Ashraf asked what the limits of the insurrection should be, Barak said, “The limits are the shutdown of the country until the government falls.”

Barak, who served as prime minister from 1999 to 2001, and later as deputy prime minister and minister of defense in a Netanyahu government 2009 to 2013, has become a bitter opponent of the current prime minister.

Speaking at an anti-government protest rally in Tel Aviv in July 2024, Barak urged the thousands present to engage in “nonviolent civil noncompliance.”

Israeli prosecutors at the time mulled whether to prosecute Barak on charges of incitement and sedition.

At a rally in Jerusalem in April of last year, he said that his goal was to use mass protests as a pressure lever to bring about early elections to replace the Netanyahu government.

“My message is elections now,” Barak told JNS.

In February, Barak called on the public to “besiege” the parliament in an ultimate attempt to force elections, bring down Netanyahu and implement a two-state solution, which includes a Palestinian state.

The former premier told Army Radio that “30,000 citizens need to camp outside the Knesset in tents for three weeks, day and night,” until “the country shuts down [and] Netanyahu realizes that his time is up.”

In March 2023, Ehud Barak revealed his strategy for a “counter-revolution” to bring down the Netanyahu government.

Speaking at Chatham House, the Royal Institute of International Affairs, a London-based think tank, Barak said he was certain his side would win, adding, “and we have even empirical evidence for this.”

He referred to research by Erica Chenoweth and Maria J. Stephan, who co-authored a 2012 book, “Why Civil Resistance Works: The Strategic Logic of Nonviolent Conflict.”

Barak said the two researchers looked at hundreds of civil protests from 1900 to 2006, noting that “they found a common denominator”—protests that succeeded included 3.5% of the population, or roughly 8% of the adult population that were “tenaciously and persistently” kept up.

“At the end the government either falls or capitulates. We already crossed this number in less than three months so we are heading in the right direction,” Barak said, referring to protests against the government’s judicial reform plan.