Hakapi says that the US State Department has started evacuating Americans from Israel

The US State Department has started flights with the help of Israel, the American ambassador to Israel Mike Hackabi He said on x Saturday.

“If you are an American citizen or a permanent legal resident in Israel or the West Bank and seeks to obtain US government assistance to leave, please complete this model so that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs can help you better and provide you with time updates: https://mytravel.state.gov/s/crisis-netake“Huckabe Books. If you only have completed the crisis eating model, please do not fill it again.”

His announcement comes days after confusion about whether the United States government will help American citizens who were evacuated from Israel. Hackabi He said On June 18 / “No announcement of helping American citizens to leave at this time.”

The next day, the American embassy sent a message to the Americans who joined the smart registration program for the smart traveler in the Foreign Ministry (step) that the Foreign Ministry was “planning to help the departure of American citizens from Israel.” I asked the Americans in Israel interested in leaving the country to fill an online model. “

The US State Department also has Israel was placed under a 4 -level travel consultantTell the Americans Not traveling there Because of “armed conflict, terrorism and civil turmoil.” Ben Gurion International Airport, Israel’s main airport, is currently closed and many commercial airlines Stop flights From Israel to the United States.

Meanwhile, the Americans in Israel organized evacuations through other measures. Israel is born He said in a statement To CBS News that the organization evacuated nearly 1500 participants in the program on the Crown Iris, a luxurious Israeli tourist ship run by Mano Maritime, sailing from the Ashdod port to Larnaca, Cyprus.

Flights rented from Tel Aviv, organized by non -profit organizations and the ruler of Florida Ron Desantis, carry hundreds of Americans who evacuate the Middle East It fell in Tampa, FloridaFriday.

Others decided to leave the border with Jordan and took a car to the capital of Amman and flying from there to the United States.

Warren Cohen, an American who was in Israel on a business trip when the fighting broke out, CBS News said He believes that the United States should do more to help give its citizens home. He said: “Mr. President, I hope that I brought me home for my family. I was your neighbor in Mar-Largo and I really want to see my wife and children.”

With the intensification of tensions with Iran since the beginning of the conflict, missile strikes in both countries have killed at least 657 people, including 263 civilians, in Iran. Israeli officials say at least 24 people in Israel were killed. Friday strikes 23 people were wounded In the northern part of Israel, Emergency Services said Magn David Adom.

A US State Department spokesman for CBS News confirmed on Saturday that “many American citizens” were slightly injured “due to an Iranian missile strike. The official spokesman did not provide more details about when or where the impact occurred due to privacy considerations.

President Trump I looked Join Israel’s multi -day effort to strike Iranian nuclear facilities, saying that he would decide on Friday that he would decide within two weeks that possible US military measures against Iran. Some American and European officials say the time frame The “last snapshot” in diplomacy.

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