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The American State Department began assisted departure flights from Israel, American ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee said on x SATURDAY.
“If you are an American citizen or a legal permanent resident currently in Israel or in the West Bank and by looking for help from the American government to leave, please complete this form so that the State Department can help you better and provide you with updates in a timely: https://mytravel.state.gov/s/crisis-intake“Huckabee wrote.” If you have only completed the crisis admission form, please do not complete it. “”
Its announcement comes a few days after confusion as to whether the United States government would help American citizens evacuate from Israel. Huckabee said On June 18, the sixth day of the War of Israel-Iran “No announcement to help private American citizens to leave for the moment.”
The next day, the United States Embassy sent a message to the Americans who had registered in the registration program for intelligent travelers in the State Department (stage) according to which the State Department “provided that eventualities help to the share of private American citizens of Israel. We will alert the American citizen community if there is additional information to share concerning the initial options.” “He asked the Americans of Israel interested in leaving the country to fill out an online form.”
The US State Department also has Placed Israel under a level 4 travel noticetell Americans do not travel there Due to “armed conflict, terrorism and civil disorders”. Ben Gurion International Airport, the main airport in Israel, is currently closed and several commercial airlines break in break of Israel in the United States.
In the meantime, the Americans in Israel have organized evacuations through other measures. Israel of regulars said in a press release At CBS News that the organization evacuated around 1,500 participants in the Iris of the Crown Iris program, an Israeli luxury cruise ship operated by Mano Maritime, by sailing from the port of Ashdod to Larnaca, in Cyprus.
Charter flights from Tel Aviv, organized by non-profit organizations and the governor of Florida Ron Desantis, transporting hundreds of Americans evacuating the Middle East landed in Tampa, Florida,Friday.
Others have decided to go out through the border with Jordan and take a car to the capital of Amman and fly from there to the United States, a parent with a child in Israel in CBS News said.
Warren Cohen, an American who was in Israel during a business trip when the fighting broke out, told CBS News He thinks that the United States should do more to help bring its citizens back home. “Mr. President, please bring me home to my family. I am your neighbor in Mar-A-Largo and I really want to go and see my wife and children,” he said.
While tensions with Iran have intensified since the start of the conflict, missile strikes in the two countries have led at least 657 people killed, including 263 civilians in Iran, said health rights in Washington. At least 24 people in Israel have been killed, according to Israeli officials. Friday strike 23 people injured In the northern part of Israel, the Magen David Adom emergency services said.
A spokesperson for the United States Department of State confirmed on Saturday at CBS News that “several” American citizens were “slightly injured” due to an Iranian missile strike. The spokesperson did not provide more details on the moment when the impact occurred due to confidentiality considerations.
President Trump considered Joining the efforts of several days in Israel to strike Iranian nuclear installations, claiming on Friday that it would decide in the two weeks of possible American military action against Iran. The deadline, according to some American and European officials, is a “Last Shot” to diplomacy.
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