Outbound travel to remain banned in apparent effort to prevent crowds at Ben Gurion Airport, already a target; flights to Israel not expected to begin before Thursday at earliest

Travellers are now looking at the map of the Mediterranean with concern over whether it is safe to travel to Cyprus.

Iran on Saturday warned the United Kingdom, the United States and France that their bases and ships in the region will be targeted if they help to stop its missile strikes on Israel, according to reports.

Ashish Kumar Chauhan, MD & CEO of the National Stock Exchange (NSE), says, "Today, under the leadership of PM Narendra Modi, several MoUs have been signed between Indian businesses and Cypriot businesses.

The Israeli military warned Iranians to evacuate arms factories, which would signal further widening of the campaign.

Missiles were visible from the Cypriot towns of Famagusta, Larnaca, Trikomo and even Limassol on Friday night and the early hours of Saturday morning as Iran launched retaliatory strikes on Tel Aviv in response to Israeli strikes on Tehran and other Iranian targets a day earlier.

Global air traffic has been disrupted following Israel’s strikes on Iran Friday, with several major airlines suspending flights to and from locations in the Middle East and rerouting their planes to avoid much of the region’s airspace.