Flydubai attempted hijacking

At a beachfront hotel in Tel Aviv, Tal reconstructs the moment he had to get two additional pilots to the controls, the efforts to secure the aircraft and the moment he thought about his children.

When an Israel-bound airliner fell into danger over the desert, Riyadh answered with deeds, not statements. Israel should now answer in kind.

However, an Israeli official told The Jerusalem Post that the working assumption remains unchanged despite Trump's comments, insisting that the co-pilot acted as a "lone wolf."

The group added that, at the time, they were unsure whether any other members of the flight crew were in on the Omani attacker's plot to crash the plane.

A GoFundMe campaign organized by Jewish Breaking News raised more than $73,000 toward a $130,000 goal for flydubai Capt. Smit Machchhar.

Within an hour of the attempted hijacking of a flydubai headed for Tel Aviv, conspiracy theories began circulating online positing that Netanyahu and the Mossad staged the incident.

"We'll get to the root of this attacker, whether he had accomplices, whether Iran was behind it. I think we'll find out very soon," Netanyahu said.

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"Our security doctrine must be clear: Anyone who tries to murder or harm Israelis, the State of Israel will pursue them and settle the score with them anywhere in the world," he said.

Nearly 3,000 posts blamed Israel or Jews; antisemitic claims accounted for more than four in five monitored “false flag” posts in the final hours