On the 22nd local time, the Israeli Ministry of Transport and Road Safety announced that after more than a year of suspension, international flights at Haifa Airport in northern Israel would resume that day. The statement indicated that the first flight to resume would be operated by Airlines Haifa Airlines to Larnaca, a southeastern coastal city in Cyprus. In June of last year, Haifa Airport resumed international flights that had been suspended for four years, but after the outbreak of the conflict between Lebanon and Israel in October last year, international flights at Haifa Airport were suspended again.