A Brazilian Air Force plane carrying a diplomatic delegation has sparked controversy in the Arab world after Ynet reporters revealed on Twitter that they had stopped in an Arab country on the way from Israel to America. South.
This has provoked anger in the Arab world, with many considering the halt as Algeria recognizes Israel. The two countries do not currently have official ties between them.
Arab officials have denied reports of the plane’s flight path and gave evidence they said was evidence of a “Zionist plot” to destroy Algeria, which, unlike its Moroccan neighbor , refusing to normalize relations with Israel.
A source from the European Agency for the Safety of Air Trafficking, often referred to as Eurocontrol, has confirmed to Ynet that the jet landed in a North African country.
Flight traffic is usually monitored by civilian tracking software, and the most popular of these, FlightRadar24, captured the plane departing from Israel.
However, due to the lack of receivers operating in ADS-B technology in the region, the aircraft was only seen before it landed through a technology called TMLT. Planes ’approximate location can be detected by measuring the time and reception of signals with several receivers as it is necessary for them to transmit Mode-S signals – which made it possible to locate the plane before it landed in Algeria.
Another tracking software, called Adsbexchange, has built two signals on the flight path – one nearby Tel Aviv, and another off the island of Malta, which was the result of a glitch.
Algerian and Arab world officials made a new forecast for the gap in which the plane stopped in Malta and only then reached Algeria, so it did not travel directly from Israel to the north African country.
The report on the first direct flight from Israel to Algeria was widely covered by Arab media.
Qatar-based television personality Faisal Al-Kasim, best known for hosting the controversial live debate show The Opposite Direction on Al Jazeera shared the report to more than 5 million Twitter followers.
BBC Arabic presented the event in a skeptical way, not to mention the Brazilian jet flight route as taken by Eurocontrol. At the end of a channel running a piece on the event, which also featured tweets from Ynet reporters, the Algerian government’s consultation with Ammar Belhimer denied the report, saying that “our country is going engaged in an electronic defense campaign as a result of refusing to normalize relations with Israel. “.”
Also, the Iranian language news network Al-Alam ran a story about the incident in a dubious light, followed by another story featuring several tweets from various sources that apparently removed the original report and sent it. dismissed as false news.
Lebanese news channel Al Mayadeen, which is linked to the Hezbollah terrorist group, also covered the incident, adding that an Algerian official source denied any reports of any Israeli plane landing there. Algeria and said they were “propaganda aimed at influencing the Algerian situation. on the Zionist enemy. “
Following the reports, the hashtag “#Algeria_in_the_Zionists_net” began circulating on social media.
“All Algerians who love their country must share this hashtag and respond to the Jewish-Moroccan allegations against Algerian foreign policy. Everyone will see that the Brazilian plane did not even fly through. Algeria, “one user wrote on Twitter.
Other users saw the plane’s landing in Algeria as an opportunity to get some help in the country’s COVID-19 response from Israel, which is leading the world’s fastest vaccination campaign. against the disease.
“Algeria will always be on the side of the Palestinians, but it would not be so bad if Algeria got vaccinated from the military plane that came from Israel,” another user wrote.
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BBC Arab presents images of Ynet reporters Daniel Salami and Itay Blumenthal after the appearance of a Brazilian landing jet in Algeria from Israel
A researcher living in Algeria told Ynet that domestic anger does not come from anti-Semitism, but criticism against Israeli policies.
“Our anger is not directed at the people or the people of Israel, but at the Israeli government which has long turned its back on Arab peace initiatives and then weaves it into us as the ones at that there is no interest in peace, “he said.” That is why we find it hard to believe that the plane landed in Algeria. If you have definitive proof, such as landing documents or a permit, present it. “