Lebanon announced that the Cypriot company "TUS AIR" was banned from flying over its airspace or landing at its international airport, because some of its shares are owned by an Israeli company.

This came, according to the official Lebanese National News Agency, in a statement issued by the Director General of Civil Aviation, Fadi Al-Hassan, in which he indicated that the Cypriot company has become 49.9% owned by the Israeli company KNAFAIM HOLDINGS LTD.

Fadi Al-Hassan had received a letter from the Cypriot Civil Aviation Authority including the appointment of TUS AIR to invest air transport services between Cyprus and Lebanon based on the air transport agreement between the two countries in 2017.

Al-Hassan's statement stated that the ban will be enforced "until further notice, pending recommendations issued by the next conference of liaison officers of the regional offices to boycott Israel in banning dealing with the aforementioned company."

The Office of the Boycott of Israel, which was established by the Arab League in 1951, sets a blacklist twice a year in the name of Israeli companies to boycott.