Flight diversion Jet takes long route 'to avoid arrest' in Europe

Benjamin Netanyahu has again taken a significantly longer flight route than necessary, avoiding the airspace of several European countries, this time while en route to the UN in New York.

- Oliver Holmes

The Israeli prime minister, who has an ICC arrest warrant against him for alleged crimes including starvation as a method of warfare, made a trip that flight-tracking data showed followed the Mediterranean, rather than a more direct route over the continent.

The Wing of Zion, Israel's equivalent of the US's Air Force One, did cross territory over Greece and Italy but then turned south toward the strait of Gibraltar before heading across the Atlantic.