According to our colleagues from Express DZ, air links between Morocco and Israel will not get green light from Algeria and Tunisia
According to sources specializing in air navigation, Tunisia and Algeria did not allow the flight from Tel Aviv to the Moroccan city of Salé-Rabat to pass through their airspace, forcing it to take an indirect route through it. ‘Mediterranean Europe.
The plane belonging to the Israeli airline “El Al” had taken off from Ben Gurion airport in Tel Aviv for Rabat-Salé airport, on the northern shore of the Mediterranean Sea bordering the territorial waters of Italy, France and Spanish. The flags of the Moroccan and Israeli countries were inscribed with the word “Peace”. In three languages, Hebrew, Arabic and English.
The Tunisian media “Nessma” indicated that the flight took a northern route which crosses the Mediterranean Sea through the Greek airspace, then Italian, then Spanish, and finally towards the Moroccan capital, Tunisia and Algeria closing their airspace to Israeli planes.
There is no normalization in sight between Tunis and Tel Aviv
And the Moroccan electronic newspaper Al-Sahifah confirmed that “the trip between Tel Aviv and Rabat avoided entering the airspace of the countries of North Africa”. Algeria has not made any official comment as long as the case does not concern it, but primarily concerns the countries which have allowed the passage of the Israeli plane over their airspace. However, the Tunisian foreign ministry confirmed in a statement that all “rumors circulated about Tunisia’s intention to normalize its relations with Israel are unfounded”. Noting that this position “will not be affected by international changes”
