India, Sept. 26 -- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu took an unusually longer route from Tel Aviv to New York this week while travelling to the US for the key United Nations General Assembly session.

As the news emerged, Netanyahu's re-routing raised questions about whether international legal pressures are starting to reshape even the skies he travels through amid the ongoing conflict with Hamas and Iran.

According to flight records from FlightRadar24, Netanyahu's official aircraft, headed to the United Nations General Assembly, skirted out huge segments of European airspace on Thursday.

The records indicate the plane skirted around the eastern Mediterranean, flew over Greece and Italy briefly, then sharply turned southwest ov...