For the first time, an Israeli plane crossed the Sudanese airspace, less than two weeks after the meeting of outgoing Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the President of the Sudanese sovereignty council, Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan, according to Israeli media.
The newspaper "Yediot Aharonot" said on Sunday that an Israeli jet plane took off early last week from Israel heading to Kinshasa airport, the capital of the Republic of the Congo, and returned at the end of the week to the Israeli Ben Gurion Airport after it passed through Sudanese airspace.
The newspaper pointed out that the proof informed Netanyahu during their meeting in the Ugandan city of Entebbe on February 3 that his country would allow the passage of Israeli aircraft in its airspace, except for the aircraft of "El Al" (the Israeli national carrier).
In several previous cases, Israeli aircraft passed through the airspace of Sudan, but were forced to stop in Amman or elsewhere so that the flight was not recorded as an Israeli flight, according to the same source.
According to "Yediot Aharonot," the aforementioned jet does not have an Israeli permit number, but its base is registered at Ben Gurion Airport.
And broadcast data indicates that the plane took off from Israel to the Congo on Monday evening, in a path that passed over the Suez Canal, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya and Uganda, which takes about 7 hours.
On the way back, the Israeli plane flew over the Sudanese airspace, with a passing route through Congo, Central Africa, Sudan and Egypt, which took 5 and a half hours.
It is noteworthy that the proof stated after his meeting with Netanyahu that the meeting came within the framework of Sudan's search for its national and security interests.