Talk:Yasser Arafat International Airport/Archive 1

Why?
Is there any word from the Israelis as to why they felt justified in bombing a civilian airport into inoperativeness in a country without an airforce? Because I'm going to pretend I don't understand that Palestinians are engaged in rampant terrorism against Israelis. And also is there any word on why Arabs like to fly planes into buildings and plant bombs among civilians. Shia1 15:05, 14 May 2007 (UTC)
 * They believed the airport was being used to transport weapons into Gaza during the al-Aqsa Intifada. They had already intecepted vessels engaged in this business, so airborne smuggling does not require a great a leap of imagination. 160.84.253.241 14:22, 17 May 2007 (UTC)

Such a question is very revealing of he who asks it. 67.87.92.56 (talk) 05:10, 21 November 2007 (UTC)

Is it? Usually, armies in civilised countries do not bomb civilian airports with flimsy excuses. His question was very justified. Because I also like to pretend I don't understand Arabs are engaged in terrorism against Israelis. _ The Mummy — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.138.86.195 (talk) 21:54, 26 February 2012 (UTC)
 * Uh, I assume you're actually considering Israel to be a "civilized country?" If so, that's you're first mistake. --72.83.90.184 (talk) 18:29, 5 August 2012 (UTC)

To The Mummy and Shial: Maybe you should read English. The talk page states not to discuss the events of the article but merely informational errors or grammatical errors. If you don't have any of these to discuss please refrain from causing arguments. You know that there are varying views on the Israeli-Palestinian issues and nobody is going to see eye to eye on it so don't create unnecessary friction here please. Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 124.183.90.250 (talk) 11:05, 28 April 2012 (UTC)
 * Where in English does it say that we are only allowed to discuss factual and grammatical errors? I, too, do not understand what Israel claimed its justification for bombing a civilian airport in a country without an air force was. This article would be much better if it discussed that. And also if I stopped pretending I don't understand that Israeli is trying to stop terrorism against it's people by Palestinians. --72.83.77.221 (talk) 07:21, 20 June 2012 (UTC)
 * To answer 72.xxx and others question's regarding the purpose of the talk page, the first paragraph of WP:TALK says it all:
 * The purpose of a Wikipedia talk page... ...is to provide space for editors to discuss changes to its associated article or project page. Article talk pages should not be used by editors as platforms for their personal views on a subject.
 * So all those questioning Israel as a "civilized country" are off-topic. Dinky town  talk  14:33, 10 December 2012 (UTC)

Closed on "Yom Kippur"?
Why is there a statement in the page that says that the airport is "closed on Yom Kippur"? That statement has been there for almost four years. Why would an Arab run airport, be observing a Jewish holiday? Dinkytown (talk) 21:41, 16 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Since there wasn't a response in nearly four years, I'll just remove this silly statement. Dinky town  talk  14:19, 10 December 2012 (UTC)
 * I used this airport twice in late 1999 and might shed some light on the issue. When you left the Gaza strip, you first went trough Palestinian passport control and were then bussed to the Israeli part of the Rafah border crossing to go through Israeli border control (Palestinians handed their passport to a Palestinian guy who in turn handed it to the Israelis sitting behind a see through mirror, who also stamped the passport, then gave it to the Palestinian guy who would call out the passenger to collect his stamped passport).After all that was done you were bussed back to the airport where you could finally board the plane.
 * On returning to the Gaza Strip you had to board this bus again. You and your luggage were bussed to the Israeli border terminal at Rafah where Israeli immigration control as well as Israeli customs did their thing. After they were done you were bussed to the airport building were you went through Palestinian passport control as well as Palestinian customs (which was rather pointless because what could they possibly find what the Israelis hadn't already found earlier?). This process took forever as one can imagine.
 * Because the Israelis always had to be involved I imagine that the reason this airport was closed on Yom Kippur was because the Israeli border terminal at Rafah controlling the passengers and their luggage would also be closed on Yom Kippur, as about anything else Israeli on that day. --Soylentyellow (talk) 13:41, 11 August 2013 (UTC)

ICAO condenmation
Here's a link to the text of the ICAO's resolution on the subject: http://unispal.un.org/UNISPAL.NSF/0/4C7354F26BB24F1685256B8000612610 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Danthemanklein (talk • contribs) 15:11, 13 October 2013 (UTC)

Extended-confirmed-protected edit request on 18 May 2020
Please add 84.22.38.22 (talk) 00:27, 18 May 2020 (UTC)
 * done in 2 seconds.  nableezy  - 00:28, 18 May 2020 (UTC)

Extended-confirmed-protected edit request on 16 June 2021
Change ICAO code from LLGV to LVGZ.

Source: http://airportsbase.org/Palestine/all/Gaza_City/Gaza_-_Yaser_Arafat_International_Airport

While the cited source does say LLGV, which would be an Israeli code, it also says that the "V" in the code stands for "Victory". I believe that the source is incorrect as to the position of the V, and that it is the second character. See also Wikipedia article "ICAO Airport Codes", which lists LL as the prefix for Israel but LV as the prefix for Palestinian Territories. 73.168.37.10 (talk) 04:29, 16 June 2021 (UTC)
 * ✅, and thank you for your input!  P.I. Ellsworth   ed.  put'r there 16:58, 16 June 2021 (UTC)

Extended-confirmed-protected edit request on 17 October 2023
Add archived source for "ICAO COUNCIL ADOPTS RESOLUTION STRONGLY CONDEMNING THE DESTRUCTION OF GAZA INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT" as the "live" url is dead. Source [12], first paragraph of "Second Intifada".

https://web.archive.org/web/20140222201351/legacy.icao.int/icao/en/nr/2002/pio200203_e.pdf Elibroftw (talk) 00:21, 17 October 2023 (UTC)
 * ✅ ARandomName123 (talk)Ping me! 02:19, 17 October 2023 (UTC)

2022-23: Airport land reallocated for argirculture
Since Jul 2022, the former airport's land is being used for agricultural purposes. Cant add this info, as the article is extended-protected. TaleleOrot (talk) 14:20, 2 April 2023 (UTC)


 * Ideed, it's all agricultural land now. See e.g. the satellite picture in https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/22/obstacles-to-gaza-aid-deliveries-visual-guide 2001:16B8:CC02:9000:3E43:387C:8D64:BB0 (talk) 15:41, 22 March 2024 (UTC)