German airline group Lufthansa says it has extended the suspension of services to Beirut until August 5, after Israel threatened reprisals for a rocket strike launched from Lebanon that killed 12 children and teenagers in the northern Druze village of Majdal Shams.
The group’s flights to Lebanon were canceled as a result of “current developments in the Middle East,” a Lufthansa spokesman tells AFP.
The deadly rocket strike on Saturday has added to concerns that Israel and the Iran-backed terror group could engage in a full-scale war.
Hezbollah has denied firing the rocket, but Israel has dismissed the denial, noting the group had said it fired at the area and presenting evidence that the munition used was Iran-made and exclusively used by Hezbollah in Lebanon.
Last night, Israel’s security cabinet authorized the government to respond to the strike, the deadliest in Israel since Hamas’s October 7 terror assault in southern Israel, which sparked the war in Gaza.
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