Posted on 07/02/23
| News Source: Arutz-7
Amnon Cohen, the acting director of the Israel Airports Authority, criticized the anti-government protestors who plan to block the roads leading to Ben Gurion Airport tomorrow (Monday).
Cohen stated that a state of emergency was declared last night (Motzaei Shabbat) when a malfunction occurred on a United Airlines flight from Tel Aviv to Newark.
"We saw to what extent the airport is a place that has a very high operational sensitivity that directly concerns human life. The airport can turn in seconds into a place where an emergency procedure is activated where the lives of hundreds of people depend on it," he said.
"When a state of emergency was declared, dozens of ambulances, emergency, rescue and security vehicles from all over Gush Dan and Jerusalem were rushed to the field. If God forbid the airport was blocked and the entrance to it was blocked, the security and rescue forces would not have been able to quickly enter the field and prepare accordingly, and we could have had an event with hundreds of dead and injured," he added.
According to him, "Ben Gurion Airport is a place of first-class operational sensitivity. Blocking it, regardless of the reason, could end in an international catastrophe, so blocking Ben Gurion Airport must be off-limits."