A Turkish plane, carrying 110 Palestinian students from inside the Green Line and occupied Jerusalem, landed in Ben Gurion International Airport east of Tel Aviv, stranded in Turkey because of the halt of air traffic after the spread of the Corona pandemic.
Representative Ahmad al-Tibi of the list of Arab parties participating in the Israeli Knesset had made frequent contacts with the Office of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who responded quickly and instructed to organize the special trip that started from Istanbul.
A statement issued by the office of the Deputy Tibi said that the Turkish presidency's move was remarkable and swift, after an Israeli airline refused at the last minute to implement a prior agreement to organize a special rescue flight to bring the students to their homes for what it described as security reasons.
The Israeli authorities also refused to be joined by Palestinian students from the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
The Al-Jazeera correspondent stated that the Israeli airlines had recruited in recent weeks to return thousands of Israelis stranded around the world, where the majority of them were Jews.