{"id":373918,"date":"2026-02-22T16:08:56","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T06:08:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/saboage-lax-140-checked-bags-el-al-free-palestine-stickers\/"},"modified":"2026-02-22T16:08:56","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T06:08:56","slug":"sabotage-at-lax-140-checked-bags-on-el-al-flight-vandalized-with-free-palestine-stickers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=373918","title":{"rendered":"Sabotage At LAX: 140 Checked Bags On EL Al Flight Vandalized With &#8216;Free Palestine&#8217; Stickers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>140 pieces of <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"276328\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/checked-baggage\/\"  >checked baggage<\/a><\/span> destined for a flight to <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"254951\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/tel-aviv\/\"  >Tel Aviv<\/a><\/span> were sabotaged on Monday, February 16, with &#8216;Free Palestine&#8217; stickers being stuck on the bags. This prompted a security concern, which led to the eventual delay of the <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"254828\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/el-al\/\"  >EL AL<\/a><\/span> operated flight by almost two hours, as additional security checks were undertaken.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The discovery of &#8216;Free Palestine&#8217; stickers on 140 checked bags bound for Tel Aviv raised alarm bells at LAX.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,4744,1275,552,16569,423],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-373918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-checked-baggage","category-el-al","category-los-angeles-international-airport","category-manufacturers","category-united-states"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=373918"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373918\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":373939,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373918\/revisions\/373939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=373918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=373918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=373918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}