BERLIN, Jan 16 (Reuters) - Germany's Lufthansa Group

is set to resume flights to and from Tel Aviv in

Israel from Feb. 1 and Wizz Air ( WZZAF ) restarted its London to Tel Aviv

route on Thursday, the companies said following a ceasefire

agreement between Israel and Hamas.

Many Western carriers cancelled flights to swaths of the

Middle East in recent months, including Beirut and Tel Aviv, as

conflict tore across the region. Airlines also avoided Iraqi and

Iranian airspace out of fear of getting accidentally caught in

drone or missile warfare.

Wizz Air ( WZZAF ) also resumed flights to Amman, Jordan

starting on Thursday from London Luton airport.

Lufthansa Group carriers Brussels Airlines, Eurowings,

Austrian Airlines and Swiss were included in Lufthansa's

decision to resume flights to Tel Aviv.

Ryanair said it was hoping to run a full summer

schedule to and from Ben Gurion airport in Tel Aviv in an

interview with Reuters last week, before the ceasefire deal was

announced.

In the wake of the fall of the Assad regime in Syria,

Turkish Airlines said it would start flights to

Damascus, the Syrian capital, on Jan. 23, with three flights per

week.

But airlines remain cautious and watchful before re-entering

the region in full, they said.

The suspension of Lufthansa flights to and from Tehran up to

and including Feb. 14 remains in place and the airline will not

fly to Beirut in Lebanon up to and including Feb. 28, it said.