The message was reportedly delivered during a meeting in New York on Thursday, and the envoys were quoted as saying, “Mr. President thinks it is time to push to end the war.

This isn't the first time Netanyahu and his entourage have taken an inconvenient flight route to avoid conflict. A few months ago, the Times of Israel cited the Israeli ambassador to the US, Yechiel Leiter, saying that Netanyahu's flight to Washington in February had taken steps to avoid making an emergency landing in Europe.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government jet flew an unusual route from Tel Aviv to New York Thursday, largely avoiding European airspace.

Netanyahu will address UN General Assembly in New York, meet US President Donald Trump at White House - Anadolu Ajansı

The Israeli prime minister gave a combative speech to a nearly empty UN General Assembly hall on Friday, where he portrayed himself as the standard-bearer of mainstream Israel in rejecting the creation of a Palestinian state and denouncing Israel's genocide in Gaza as “a joke”.

A 21-point plan to end the Gaza war circulated by the White House includes elements Netanyahu has historically rejected.

Prime Minister Netanyahu's decision to avoid certain European airspaces raises speculation amid ICC arrest warrant against him.

At two private events in New York, Prime Minister Netanyahu gathered friendly faces to discuss fighting for Israel, but the Prime Minister faces remarkably different rhetoric from critics at home. Hours after dozens of diplomats walked out of his UN speech,