Posted on 08/08/2013 10:35:22 AM PDT by Lera
A security assessment led to the immediate shutdown of the southern airport.
The IDF ordered the immediate shutdown of the airport at Eilat Thursday to all arriving and departing flights, following an unspecified security assessment.
The assessment is most likely linked to terrorist activity in the Sinai desert, which borders on the southern port city.
Takeoffs of flights headed north were initially allowed to take place but were also stopped later in the evening.
The IDF will open the airfield at Uvda as an alternate landing spot for flights diverted from Eilat.
The Egyptian military has been conducting a large scale offensive against terror cells that operate in Sinai, in the last few weeks. The IDF has assessed that terrorists will try to launch rockets at Eilat.
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WHOA this is Israel version of SO CAL John Wayne airport I think
Yet we keep sending money to the muslim brotherhood terrorist
I have never been so ashamed of being an American as I am now
Israel still has the greatest ally in the universe.
ghaddafi’s manpads courtesy of 0bambi and dead americans
}:^)
El Shaddai !
So sayeth the prayer inside all my mezuzahs. I even have them stuck to the headboards on our beds.
That she does :)
(Psalms 118:8) It is better to trust in the LORD than to put confidence in man.
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