{"id":12644,"date":"2024-01-26T13:45:50","date_gmt":"2024-01-26T13:45:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=12644"},"modified":"2024-01-26T13:45:50","modified_gmt":"2024-01-26T13:45:50","slug":"el-al-suspends-south-africa-route-in-wake-of-icj-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/26\/el-al-suspends-south-africa-route-in-wake-of-icj-case\/","title":{"rendered":"El Al Suspends South Africa Route in Wake of ICJ Case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Agencies &#8211; Sudan Events\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>El Al Israel Airlines said on Friday it was suspending its route to Johannesburg at the end of March, citing a steep drop in demand after South Africa accused Israel of genocide at the World Court.<\/p>\n<p>Israel\u2019s flag carrier flies up to twice weekly nonstop to Johannesburg.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIsraelis don\u2019t want to fly to South Africa,\u201d said an El Al spokesperson. \u201cThey are cancelling flights and planes are pretty empty&#8230; We understand it\u2019s the situation because it was different before.\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cThe fact that the Israelis don\u2019t want to go to South Africa but do want to go to other places helps us decide that we\u2019re pausing that route,\u201d she said. The company also cited the current security situation.<\/p>\n<p>UN judges will rule on Friday on South Africa\u2019s request for emergency measures against Israel, including that it halt its military operations in Gaza, over which it faces allegations of state-led genocide at the World Court.<\/p>\n<p>After the October 7 attack on Israel by Hamas that killed 1,200 Israelis and abducted more than 240 others, Israel responded heavily in Hamas-ruled Gaza. More than 26,000 people have been killed, according to Gaza health authorities.<\/p>\n<p>Israel has asked the court to reject the case outright. An Israeli government spokesperson on Thursday said they expected the UN\u2019s top court to \u201cthrow out these spurious and specious charges.\u201d<br \/>\nSouth Africa argued two weeks ago that Israel\u2019s aerial and ground offensive was aimed at bringing about \u201cthe destruction of the population\u201d of Gaza.<\/p>\n<p>El Al said once it had stopped flying to Johannesburg it would shift the widebody aircraft it uses on the route to expand current destinations to North America and Bangkok and Tokyo in Asia while examining new routes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Agencies &#8211; Sudan Events\u00a0 El Al Israel Airlines said on Friday it was suspending its route to Johannesburg at the end of March, citing a steep drop in demand after South Africa accused Israel of genocide at the World Court. Israel\u2019s flag carrier flies up to twice weekly nonstop to Johannesburg. \u201cIsraelis don\u2019t want to &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12645,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12644"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12644\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12646,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12644\/revisions\/12646"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}