Air carrier of Jordan Royal Jordanian It suspended its flights to Beirut today “due to the current situation,” Jordan’s state news agency reported, without specifying the exact dates of the suspension.
Officials told Reuters there was no problem in Jordanian airspace.
Lebanese Shiite movement Hezbollah, Iran’s ally fired hundreds of missiles and drones at Israel earlier today in response to the killing of a senior member of its military wing, Fouad Shukr, in an Israeli attack in a Beirut suburb last month.
Israel’s military said its warplanes had struck targets in Lebanon shortly before the Hezbollah strikes, as they detected preparations by the Lebanese movement for a “large-scale” attack on Israel.