A physical altercation broke out Friday evening at Ben Gurion Airport between arriving passengers and workers, after passengers faced an abnormally long wait for their luggage, according to journalist Dan Fisher (N12). Police arrived at the scene. One passenger quoted said half the flight crew was observing Shabbat as it entered, and that no explanations were being given.
A second night of unrest at Ben Gurion Airport unfolded Friday evening as a brawl broke out between arriving passengers and airport workers over luggage delays that passengers described as unusually long. Dan Fisher (N12) reported that police were on the scene. A passenger quoted said half the aircraft's crew was observing Shabbat — which had just entered — and that workers offered no explanations.
The incident follows a violent clash earlier Friday evening, reported by The Zioneer at 19:53, in which security guards at the same terminal drew their weapons during a confrontation with passengers over the same luggage delays. No injuries or arrests were reported in either incident. It was not immediately clear whether the grievances in the second confrontation drew on the same flight or a separate one, or whether airport management had issued any operational response.
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