German Chancellor Olaf Scholz's delegation had to abruptly leave the German government's plane as a result of a missile alarm at Tel Aviv's Ben Gurion airport on Tuesday evening.

Scholz himself was driven by car to an air shelter in a nearby building while other passengers, including members of the German press corps, were ordered to lie on the ground near the plane.

Overhead, two air-defense missiles were fired by the Israeli military’s "Iron Dome" missile defense system, clearly audible on footage taken from the airfield by Georg Ismar, a reporter for Germany's Süddeutsche Zeitung newspaper.

A German government spokesperson said that Scholz himself had seen two rockets shot down.

About half an hour later, Scholz and the rest of the delegation were able to board the "Konrad Adenauer" Airbus A350-900 and take off for Cairo.