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AS MANY as 90% of tourists planning to visit Israel have canceled their reservations. The cancellations were made after rockets were launched from Lebanon and Syria towards northern Israel.
The Hebrew-language Israeli daily Maariv reported that business owners expected many tourists to spend their vacations in northern Israel. But the rocket attacks prompted tourists to change their plans.
“In our business, when we lose one week, we lose the whole season,” said one businessman in the area, reported Middle East Monitor, Monday (04/10), 2023.
On Saturday (04/08), 2023 night and early Sunday morning, militants in Syria fired rockets in two salvos into Israel and the Golan Heights. A Damascus-based Palestinian group loyal to the Syrian government claimed responsibility for the first round of rocket attacks. They said the attack was in retaliation for the Israeli police raid on the Al-Aqsa Mosque.
In the first salvo, one rocket landed on a field in the Golan Heights. The shattered fragments of another missile fell into Jordanian territory near the Syrian border. In the second round, two rockets crossed the border into Israel. One rocket was intercepted and the second landed in an open area. Israel responded with artillery fire at areas in Syria. [sources/photo special]
