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Netanyahu Changes His Flight Route to the United States in the Face of a Threat of Possible Arrest for War Crimes in Gaza

Summary by El Pais
The “Wings of Zion”, the official plane of the Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, on Thursday avoided crossing the airspace of France and Spain on its route to New York, tracing a great rodeo over the Mediterranean Sea: 600 kilometers more, according to the Israeli daily Haaretz. There is no official explanation for that unusual journey, but several Israeli media link it this Friday with a possibility that the Israeli Government shows…

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Benajmín Netanyahu has taken an unusual route to attend the UN General Assembly, which is taking place in New York. According to Israeli media, this change of course, in which the Israeli Prime Minister has forcibly avoided European countries, is due to the arrest warrant imposed by the International Criminal Court (ICC). The conventional route from Tel Aviv to New York, runs air spaces of TPI member states, however, according to the Flightaware…

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Ljubljana. Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s plane headed yesterday for an indirect and longer route to attend the United Nations (UN) General Assembly in New York, in an apparent effort to avoid the airspace of European countries that could enforce an arrest warrant pending against him for alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity, CNN reported.

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The “Wings of Zion”, the official plane of the Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, on Thursday avoided crossing the airspace of France and Spain on its route to New York, tracing a great rodeo over the Mediterranean Sea: 600 kilometers more, according to the Israeli daily Haaretz. There is no official explanation for that unusual journey, but several Israeli media link it this Friday with a possibility that the Israeli Government shows…

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The Israeli Prime Minister, Benyamin Netanyahu, chose on Thursday 25 September 2025 an unusual flight route to New York, where he is to speak before the UN General Assembly. However, France had approved an Israeli request to use his airspace, according to a diplomatic source quoted by the Agence France-Presse, flight tracking data indicate that the Israeli head of government aircraft took a more southern route. The aircraft flew over Greece and …

The Israeli prime minister avoided traveling through European countries with the ICC arrest warrant in place and arrived in New York to address the UN General Assembly. Netanyahu says Israel must "finish the job" in Gaza.

This change of route takes place in a tense diplomatic context, following the recognition of the State of Palestine by European countries among them Fra...

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El Pais broke the news in Spain on Friday, September 26, 2025.
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