Tel Aviv: Israel’s national airline Elal has said that the flight from Warsaw to Tel Aviv made a medical emergency landing at the airport in Antalya, Turkey, and during the call for refueling, the crew refused to provide fuel.
According to the report of the foreign news agency AFP, Israel’s national airline said in a statement that its flight from Warsaw to Tel Aviv stopped at Antalya Airport to disembark a passenger due to medical reasons, and in the meantime the airport staff Refused to provide fuel.
The Turkish crew at Antalya Airport refused to refuel Flight LY5102 before it departed for Israel, the statement said.
The Israeli airline said that the local crew refused to provide fuel to our company’s plane even though it was a medical problem, but the passenger was disembarked.
Regarding the fuel, it was said that after the refusal of the Turkish crew, the plane reached Rhodes, Greece, from where the fuel was obtained and the plane flew to Israel.
Turkish diplomatic sources have confirmed that the Israeli plane was given permission to make an emergency landing to disembark a sick passenger.
He said that fuel was provided to the plane on humanitarian basis but the required procedure was being fulfilled that the captain of the plane decided to fly the flight on his own.
On the other hand, the newspaper Times of Israel has claimed that the plane was parked at Antalya Airport for several hours due to dangers and then left for Rhodes.
It should be noted that relations between Turkey and Israel have become extremely tense after the start of the Gaza war on October 7 last year, and direct flights between the two countries have also been suspended.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is a major critic of Israel’s brutal operations in Gaza and continues to express support for the Palestinian resistance organization Hamas, while Israel, the United States and the European Union consider Hamas a terrorist organization.
37 thousand 877 Palestinians have been martyred, thousands injured and millions displaced in Israel’s barbaric operations on Gaza, which began on October 7.
