PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – The Federal Aviation Administration banned U.S. airlines from flying to Haiti for 30 days after gangs shot at three planes, and the United Nations also temporarily suspended flights to Port-au-Prince on Tuesday, limiting incoming humanitarian aid. to the country. .

Bullets hit a Spirit Airlines plane as it was about to land in the capital on Monday, injuring a flight attendant and forcing the airport to close. Photos and videos obtained by The Associated Press show bullet holes inside a plane.

On Tuesday, JetBlue and American Airlines announced that post-flight inspections found their planes had also been shot at on Monday while taking off from Port-au-Prince. American suspended flights to the capital until February 12.

The shootings were part of a wave of violence that erupted as the gang violence-plagued country swore in its new prime minister after a politically tumultuous process.

U.N. spokesman Stéphane Dujarric said the agency documented 20 armed clashes and more roadblocks affecting humanitarian operations during Monday’s violence. Port-au-Prince’s airport will remain closed until Nov. 18, and Dujarric said the U.N. will divert flights to the country’s second airport in the northern, more peaceful city of Cap Haïtien.

Reduced access to the epicenter of violence, Port-au-Prince, is likely to be devastating, as gangs suffocating life in the capital have pushed Haiti to the brink of famine. Dujarric warned that cutting flights would mean “limiting the flow of humanitarian aid and humanitarian personnel to the country.”

A convoy of 20 trucks full of food and medical supplies in the south had already been postponed and an operation providing cash assistance to 1,000 people in the Carrefour area, where violence broke out, had to be cancelled.

“We are doing everything possible to ensure the continuation of operations amid this challenging environment,” he said. “We call for an end to the escalation of violence to allow safe, sustained and unimpeded humanitarian access.”