{"id":9137,"date":"2024-08-27T09:53:08","date_gmt":"2024-08-27T09:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/inquiry-into-claims-israeli-munitions-flown-through-irish-airspace\/"},"modified":"2024-08-27T09:53:08","modified_gmt":"2024-08-27T09:53:08","slug":"inquiry-into-claims-israeli-munitions-flown-through-irish-airspace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/inquiry-into-claims-israeli-munitions-flown-through-irish-airspace\/","title":{"rendered":"Inquiry into claims Israeli munitions flown through Irish airspace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-component=\"text-block\">\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">Claims that munitions for the Israel Defence Forces have been transported through Irish airspace are being investigated by the Republic of Ireland&#8217;s Department of Transport.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">The allegations were made on The Ditch website.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">It claimed that a cargo flight bound for Israel flew through Irish airspace earlier in 2024.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">A spokesperson for the Department of Transport said carrying weapons of war on a civil aircraft in Irish airspace was prohibited unless an exemption was granted by the transport minister.<!-- --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div data-component=\"text-block\">\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">They confirmed no applications had been received, or exemptions granted in 2023 or so far in 2024.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">The flight was by a civil air operator and the Department of Transport said it was engaging with it.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">On Monday, Taoiseach (Irish Prime Minister) Simon Harris said he was seeking information on the reports. <!-- --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/c2048rnqxego\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Claims that munitions for the Israel Defence Forces have been transported through Irish airspace are being investigated by the Republic of Ireland&#8217;s Department of Transport. The allegations were made on The Ditch website. It claimed that a cargo flight bound for Israel flew through Irish airspace earlier in 2024. A spokesperson for the Department of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9138,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9137"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9139,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9137\/revisions\/9139"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}