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Sudan President: Planes Cannot Use Our Airspace en Route to ’Israel’

Sudan President: Planes Cannot Use Our Airspace en Route to ’Israel’
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Sudan’s President Omar al-Bashir on Saturday refuted comments by Zionist Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that significant progress had been made on the issue of flights to “Israel” via Sudanese airspace, according to a television report.

“We received a request to use our airspace on the route to Tel Aviv. The request did not come from El Al, but from Kenya Airways — we refused,” al-Bashir was said to have told a local Sudanese television outlet.

Earlier in December last year, Netanyahu indicated that the Zionist entity was allowed to fly over the Muslim-majority nation in northern Africa, with which it does not have diplomatic ties.

“Currently we can fly over Egypt, Chad, and apparently, we can fly over Sudan, and then we can fly directly to Brazil, which would save about two hours,” Netanyahu said.

Netanyahu’s announcement included that “Israeli” planes would be allowed to fly over Oman, adding that he is working on getting Saudi Arabia’s permission for this as well.

Last year, Air India launched the first scheduled service to “Israel” to be allowed to travel through Saudi airspace, a sign of a behind-the-scenes normalization of ties between the kingdom and occupation entity.

Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team

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