India, Sept. 30 -- 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, claims Israel.

Itamar Ben-Gvir, Israel's security minister, said that "terrorist" wanted to crash Flydubai's FZ1073 plane to kill Israelis, according to AFP.

However, initially, Doron Spielman, who is a spokesperson for the Israeli prime minister's office, had told Reuters that the incident was not believed to have been a hijacking and described it as a "different incident".

Earlier, two Israeli officials, speaking on condition of anonymity to brief reporters, said Israel's current assessment was that the incident was an attempted "terror attack" and was not rel...