DHAKA: Thrash metal band Megadeth and singer CeeLo Green have cancelled concerts in Israel amid the ongoing conflict in Gaza.

Megadeth’s website said its 6 August gig in Tel Aviv was cancelled because ‘passage’ for the band and its gear could not be ‘guaranteed’, reports the BBC.

Green’s concert in Jerusalem on 19 August would have been his first in Israel.

A number of other artists have pulled out of concerts in recent weeks.

A brief statement on Megadeth’s website said ‘the band was looking forward to this concert and is disappointed they will not be able to put on the show for their fans’.

But the band ‘expects to return to Tel Aviv on their next international tour’, it added.

Green had been due to perform in Independence Park in Jerusalem.

BDST: 1942 HRS, AUG 06, 2014