Germany’s Lufthansa airline group will resume flights to Tel Aviv next month, the company said Thursday, a day after Israel and Hamas announced a Gaza ceasefire and hostage-prisoner exchange agreement.

“Flights to and from Tel Aviv will resume from February 1,” the group said in a statement.

However, it added that its suspensions of flights to Tehran and Beirut would remain in place until at least February 14 and 28, respectively.

The Lufthansa group, whose carriers include SWISS, Austrian Airlines, and Eurowings, has repeatedly modified its schedule in recent months due to the course of the conflict in the Middle East, as have other airlines.

The war in Gaza was sparked by the October 7, 2023, Hamas attack on Israel, which resulted in the deaths of 1,210 people, mostly civilians, according to an AFP tally of official Israeli figures.

Israel’s ensuing campaign has destroyed much of Gaza, killing 46,707 people, most of them civilians, according to figures from the Hamas-run territory’s health ministry that the UN considers reliable.

AFP

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