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<\/p>\nsource \u2013 newsbreak.gr<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n The news of the landing<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0of the Israeli government aircraft \u201d\u00a0<\/span>Wing of Zion\u201d at \u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/strong>Eleftherios Venizelos<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0\u201d airport\u00a0<\/span>at noon on Friday caused\u00a0<\/span>a stir and strong reactions on social media . This particular aircraft is used for the transportation of Israeli Prime Minister\u00a0<\/span>Benjamin Netanyahu<\/span><\/a><\/strong>\u00a0, which sparked speculation that the Israeli leader left his country in order to avoid possible Iranian retaliation,\u00a0<\/span>following Israel\u2019s attack on Iran on the same day.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n The plane, according to flight data, took off at 11:19 from\u00a0<\/span>Ben Gurion\u00a0<\/span><\/strong>Airport<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0and landed in Athens at 1:09 p.m. A wave of posts on social media pointed out that an international arrest warrant is pending against\u00a0<\/span>Netanyahu<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0from the International Criminal Court (ICC), a fact that \u2014 according to international law \u2014 would oblige Greece, as a founding member of the ICC, to arrest him if he were indeed on Greek soil.<\/span><\/p>\n Sources from the Maximos Mansion rushed to deny the presence\u00a0<\/span>of the Israeli prime minister in Athens<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0, claiming that only the Israeli ambassador was on board the aircraft, who traveled to Greece on the government plane due to the suspension of passenger flights due to the escalation of tension in the region.<\/span><\/p>\n The Iranian news agency\u00a0IRNA<\/strong>\u00a0reported that Netanyahu was taken to\u00a0an \u201cunknown location, possibly in Greece,\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0immediately after the Israeli strikes on Iranian targets. Israeli media also reportedly published photos of the Wing of Zion escorted by fighter jets, without specifying the destination.<\/p>\n The\u00a0Jerusalem Post<\/strong>\u00a0offers a different version, according to which the government plane was removed from Israel\u00a0because it is considered a strategic target and not because Netanyahu was on board.<\/strong>\u00a0A similar incident occurred in April 2024, when Iran launched a missile attack on Israel.<\/p>\n The Greek branch of the international BDS (Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions) movement, which calls for boycotts and sanctions against Israel due to the occupation of Palestine and the crimes in Gaza,\u00a0issued a statement demanding answers from the Greek government:<\/strong><\/p>\n BDS denounced that the presence of Wing of Zion confirms the \u201d\u00a0informal military and geopolitical cooperation between Greece and Israel<\/strong>\u00a0\u201c, noting that Greece provides full facilitation to the Israeli state, turning into an \u201cextension of its war machine\u201d.<\/p>\n The question remains open:\u00a0Who was actually on board the Wing of Zion? The lack of<\/strong>\u00a0transparency and conflicting information intensify suspicion and confirm, once again, the\u00a0shadowy dimension of Greek-Israeli relations in a period of international crisis<\/strong>\u00a0.<\/p>\nIranian media write that Netanyahu is in Greece \u2013 Maximou (PM\u2019s Office) denies<\/h4>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
Refutation from the Greek government<\/h2>\n
Iranian and Israeli reports<\/h2>\n
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<\/p>\nIntervention by BDS Greece<\/h2>\n
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