Israel repatrites tens of thousands of its citizens stuck abroad after flare in the fight with Iran, the deployment of emergency air and ferries.
The authorities allocate flights as preventive measures, alert that the aircraft could be threatened by incoming missile firing.
The first planeload landed on Wednesday at Ben Gurion Airport, the main international gate of Israel and brought Israel from Cyprus, where many traveled from other places to find the opportunity to return home. Two cruise ships are also on the basis of a contract to bring people from the island, said Transport Minister Miri Regev.
Israel says that up to 150,000 of its citizens traveled abroad when a surprising attack on Iranian nuclear and military targets launched on Friday, which caused an unprecedented fire exchange.
The rescue mission could take weeks at the current return rate – 2,500 people a day with air and approximately the same number by sea. When tickets were offered online on Tuesday, they were grabbed in minutes, the Israeli media said.
“There is no reason to emphasize,” Regev said at a press conference, her notes addressed to the Israelis could not return home. “You’re abroad.
Israel sent a large part of its civil air fleet abroad after the beginning of the fight and remembered some aircraft only after the air risks were sufficiently released to allow a limited return to daily operations.
However, Ben Gurion, besides Tel Aviv and a smaller airport in the northern city of Haifa, which also partly operates, is still considered to be potential goals for Iran.
In order to discourage discarding, the Israelis is forbidden to relieve the air, with possible exceptions from medical or family emergencies, Regev said.
It is possible to travel around the land of neighboring Jordan or Egypt, although Israel has released terrorist advice against the use of these routes.
Some private yacht owners offer Israelis to Cyprus or Cyprus, a 30 -hour trip usually for approximately $ 1,000.
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