A Saudi plane carrying no passengers landed Thursday at Tel Aviv Ben Gurion Airport on Wednesday for what Israeli officials said was a "routine maintenance procedure."
The aircraft, an Airbus A330, arrived from Brussels with no passengers on board, according to a report in Ynet news Wednesday.
The aircraft is owned by a European company and leased to Saudia, Saudi Arabia’s government-owned national airline.
The maintenance contract was signed between European consortium Airbus and a subsidiary of Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) without Saudi involvement.
"IAI confirmed that the Airbus came to IAI facilities in order to have maintenance work done due to an agreement that IAI has with a European company that leases the plane to Saudi Arabia," a spokeswoman for IAI was quoted by the Jerusalem Post as saying.
Israel and Saudi Arabia have no official relations.