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> According to Israel's Maariv, the Israelis received permission to land in Egypt but were asked to leave when the lack of visas was discovered. The Egyptian authorities cited "national security reasons".

> According to the newspaper, though, the pilots are out of fuel and are not being allowed to refuel. Moreover, the weather was too stormy for them to take off.

> "We received a request and we are trying to help with the authorities," Maariv quoted an Israeli foreign ministry spokesperson as saying. "From our inspection, the Israelis did receive permission to land the planes but did not receive visas for their entry into the country."

> The Israeli newspaper described the incident as "unusual". The Egyptian authorities had not issued any comment at the time of writing, said Anadolu.

"unusual" indeed.

Why is this even news...

I wonder what the reason Egypt gives for not allowing them to leave.

Do they need to have someone purchase and bring in fuel from outside Egypt?

Or is it just that they expected a bribe?

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Israel's Mossad famously captured one of the architects of the Holocaust in Argentina by posing as airline pilots and flew him to Israel where he was tried and executed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Eichmann

> Or is it just that they expected a bribe?

Probably. It's a common practice in Egypt to pay a bribe, overcharging foreigners.

Just look at what was happening during COP27 conference in Egypt:

> Instead, top officials from Europe and elsewhere have been investigating reports that youth delegates have been left without beds, subjected to extortion, forced to sleep in rooms with no locks and woken up in the night by arbitrary demands for documents — all as part of a program sponsored by the Egyptian Ministry of Youth and Sports.

> According to three people familiar with the situation, around 80 youth delegates who had paid around $700 each for their accommodation arrived at their hotel late on Saturday to find they either had no rooms, or were being asked to pay an additional fee of between $300 and $600 per night.

Last time I checked Egypt no longer hide high ranking Naziz

Israel needs to be held accountable

For what

Capturing Nazi's was never Mossad's only job.

Idk maybe start the list with terrorizing Palestine

Edit instead of downvote and block, I’d love a civil discussion to hear why their behavior is justified

They don't terrorize Palestine, quite the opposite in fact. No other country on earth is scrutinized more than Israel. There are UN bodies solely dedicated to it and they are biased and corrupt as fuck when it comes to Israel.

It was never Mossad's job period. But the fact that you think that Israel need pilots to kidnap someone from a country that shares with Israel hundreds of kms of border is pretty funny.

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Hundreds of kms with Saini, but Suez only has 3 bridges that go across it, and anyone Mossad was after would likely be west of Suez, since barely anyone lives in Saini. It would be easy to get discovered and captured going across these bridges, so it makes way more sense to use a plane or boat.

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“Mossad is so smart they only use tactics I can think of in the Reddit comments myself”

You know the other country mentioned in this article does the same thing right?

>Hundreds of kms with Saini, but Suez only has 3 bridges that go across it,

You really think that passing someone through airport security is easier than passing the Suez?

I don’t see that as justification. Just because multiple countries do shitty things doesn’t make it ok. All it means is there’s multiple guilty parties

On what planet is it unusual to deny entry into a country to people who don't have the required travel documents?

Because all the experts come out to screech and complain about a non issue.

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So Egypt wants to kick the pilots out but have them leave their aircraft in Egypt. Very subtle.

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Damn! Looks like Egyptian government's paranoia has gotten much worse since my last visit couple years ago.

Thanks for sharing the video.

The unusual part is refusing fuel, the thing they need to leave

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Landing at an airport for fuel to get turned around and leave is not the same as “entry” in an immigration sense, otherwise crew and passengers would need visas for every single country they have a transfer in despite never leaving the airport facilities. Given it was an emergency (lack of fuel, weather), I wouldn’t be surprised if there were an ICAO violation here for denying appropriate service to the aircraft and crew.