By JNS Staff

Israel’s main international airport resumed operations on Sunday morning after being briefly closed in the early hours due to Israel’s preemptive strike against Hezbollah targets in Lebanon.

Ben Gurion International Airport reopened at 7:00 a.m. local time, but many flights were delayed or canceled due to the dawn attack, and disruptions were expected to continue throughout the day.

Some international flights were diverted to Larnaca (Cyprus) or Cairo (Egypt), while some Israeli-operated flights landed at an airfield in southern Israel.

Due to the uncertain security situation, several international airlines that had scheduled flights to Israel on Sunday, including Air France, Ethiopian Airlines, Hungary-based low-cost carrier Wizz Air and Greece’s Aegean Airlines, have canceled their flights to and from Tel Aviv.

The airport, which was closed at around 5:00 a.m., was originally scheduled to reopen at 11:00 a.m.

It was expected that about 50,000 passengers would pass through the airport on Sunday, evenly distributed between departing and arriving flights, and by late morning Ben-Gurion was once again bustling with activity.

Airport officials urged passengers to check with their airline before arriving at the airport.

None of the three major traditional US airlines currently fly to Israel.