Terrorist on flydubai aircraft wanted to crash plane, kill Israelis on board: Israel minister

The flydubai incident in which a plane travelling from Dubai to Tel Aviv diverted and made a safe emergency landing in Saudi Arabia was a "terrorist" attack, claimed an Israeli minister. Itamar Ben-Gvir, Israel's security minister, said that "terrorist" wanted to crash flydubai's FZ1073 plane to kill Israelis. Earlier, two Israeli officials said the incident was a suspected terror attack.