JERUSALEM, Feb 16 (Reuters) – Israeli business planes have began overflying Sudan, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu mentioned on Sunday, casting the brand new air hall as the results of a breakthrough assembly with the African Muslim nation’s de-facto chief this month.
Khartoum mentioned on Feb. 5 it had given Israeli planes preliminary approval to fly over its territory, two days after Sudan’s navy head of state, Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, met Netanyahu in Uganda.
“Now we’re discussing speedy normalisation. The primary Israeli airplane handed yesterday over the skies of Sudan,” Netanyahu mentioned in a speech to U.S. Jewish leaders, saying the route minimize some three hours off flights from Israel to South America.
Sudan, aware of pro-Palestinian sensitivities, has stopped wanting saying it’s normalising ties with Israel.
Israel beforehand thought of Sudan a safety risk as a result of it suspected Iran used Sudan as a conduit for overland smuggling of munitions to the Gaza Strip. In 2009, regional…