{"id":10067,"date":"2026-04-05T11:45:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T11:45:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/04\/05\/ben-gurion-airport-evacuated-suspicious-smoke-unknown-package\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T11:45:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T11:45:13","slug":"ben-gurion-airport-evacuated-suspicious-smoke-unknown-package","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/04\/05\/ben-gurion-airport-evacuated-suspicious-smoke-unknown-package\/","title":{"rendered":"Ben-Gurion Airport Evacuated After Suspicious Smoke From Unknown Package"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth has reported that Ben-Gurion International Airport was evacuated and its staff were removed from the premises following the sighting of smoke emanating from a large, unidentified package.<\/p>\n<p>According to the report, thick smoke arose from a suspicious package within the airport grounds minutes ago, causing widespread panic and concern among the personnel. It is said that this incident occurred in a section of the airport that was already operating on a partial closure basis.<\/p>\n<p>So far, authorities have not released further details about the contents of the package or the possibility of explosives or other hazardous materials, and investigations are ongoing.<\/p>\n<p>Located near Tel Aviv, Ben-Gurion Airport has been repeatedly targeted by security threats amid the ongoing conflict, with numerous flights canceled or suspended due to missile attacks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ben-Gurion Airport near Tel Aviv evacuated after suspicious smoke seen from an unknown package; authorities investigate potential security threat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10066,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-security-incidents"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10067\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}