Cypriot President Nikos Christodoulides speaks during a news conference following a meeting with Lebanese President Joseph Aoun, at the presidential palace in Baabda, east of Beirut, Lebanon, 10 January 2025. General Joseph Aoun was elected president of Lebanon on 09 January 2025, after a two-year political stalemate that left the nation without a president since 2022. EPA-EFE/WAEL HAMZEH Domestic security agency Shin Bet ordered the suspension of flights to the airport, a terminal catering mainly to charter traffic on the western coast of Cyprus, late on Sunday night, reports from Israel said.
"The Republic of Cyprus is aware of the change in scheduling, for security reasons, of Israeli companies from and to Paphos airport. This happened some days ago," a Cypriot official told Reuters.
"Flights (from Israel) are continuing normally to Larnaca," the official added, referring to Cyprus's largest international airport.
Paphos is the smallest of Cyprus's two airports and abuts a military base slated for an upgrade by the U.S. According to its winter flight schedule available online, there are up to 10 flights a week from Tel Aviv and 7 flights a week from Haifa.
(Reporting by Michele Kambas; Editing by Stephen Coates)