Tel Aviv’s Ben Gurion International Airport will halt departures and arrivals of flights for two hours from 8 a.m. (1 a.m. ET) as part of a nationwide strike today, the airport confirmed to news outlet.
A strike that threatens to shut down the entire Israeli economy has been called by the country’s largest labor union to push the government to secure a hostage and ceasefire deal.
It reflects the huge public demonstrations over the killing of six hostages in Gaza whose bodies were recovered over the weekend.
Three of the victims, including Israeli-American Hersh Goldberg-Polin, had been expected to be released in an eventual ceasefire, Israeli officials told.
