Flydubai Attack: Israel FM Says Attacker Tried To Kill Israelis, Harm UAE-Israel Ties
The co-pilot who stabbed the captain on a flydubai flight is an Omani national, Israel's Foreign Minister Gideon Sa'ar said in an interview with NDTV on Thursday. He termed it a "jihadist terror attack", added that there's no evidence yet, but claimed that the main motive was to derail Israel-UAE ties and the Abraham Accords. He also praised the Indian pilot, Captain Smit Machchhar, who managed to open the cockpit door despite being injured. Official details on the attacker have neither been released by Saudi Arabia, where the plane was diverted by backup pilots who happened to be on the plane, nor by the UAE, where the Dubai-Tel Aviv flight originated.
