Israel and the UAE have resolved a dispute over security arrangements for special flights repatriating Israelis from Dubai, according to Israeli newspaper Haaretz. At least 10 flights are scheduled for Monday, October 5, to bring home Israelis stranded in Dubai after flydubai suspended its services. The dispute centred on a request by Shin Bet, Israel’s domestic security agency, to install baggage-screening equipment at Dubai airport.

Israeli media reported on Sunday that the UAE had refused to allow the equipment to be installed, putting Monday’s flights at risk of cancellation. According to Israel’s Channel 12, the UAE said the flights would not operate if Israel insisted on the request.

An unnamed senior Emirati official had previously told the channel that Israel was exploiting the attack on a flydubai flight “for political purposes”. The official also said describing the services as “rescue flights” created the impression that the UAE was a country at war or in crisis.

According to the Maariv newspaper, the chief executive of Israeli airline Arkia said on Sunday that more than 500 passengers had so far been brought back from Dubai. He added that the cancellation of about 10 daily flydubai flights to Israel had left around 1,500 passengers stranded each day.

Flydubai has suspended flights to Israel since September 30, when the airline’s co-pilot attacked the captain on flight FZ1073. Israel also barred the airline from flying to the country for six days from October 1. Israeli media reported that flydubai had cancelled its scheduled flights to Tel Aviv until October 15.