The first plane carrying Ukrainians took off from Israel: how Ukraine evacuate citizens

The first evacuation flight organized by Kyiv took off from Tel Aviv. At the same time, Poland announced the end of the expulsion operation of all its citizens. The situation with aid to the people of the Gaza Strip is more complicated. The Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs canceled the planned evacuation of Ukrainians from there.

How Ukraine evacuates citizens from Israel

The first evacuation flight with Ukrainians took off from Tel Aviv. This was announced on his Facebook by the spokesman of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, Oleg Nikolenko.

The first evacuation flight with 207 Ukrainian citizens, including 63 children on board, took off from Tel Aviv to Bucharest The next flight to evacuate 155 Ukrainians is planned for October 15. It will go from Israel to Romania.

Earlier, Ukrainian ambassador to Israel Yevhen Korniychuk said that they planned to evacuate 260 Ukrainians from Israel.

The following flights will be operated to countries neighboring Ukraine: to Moldova, Slovakia, Poland, Romania.

“First of all, the embassy provides tickets to the most vulnerable groups of the population: those who have come to Israel for treatment, families with children and tourists whose flights have been canceled and cannot leave the country in any other way. In this case, you need to prove that you can buy the ticket yourself", explained the ambassador.

“Ben-Gurion International Airport is operating almost as usual. Some foreign airlines have refused to fly because their insurance has been increased, but all Israel airlines and most low-cost airlines are operating. Flying out of Israel is not a problem now. the real problem is the hype around tickets, which has increased the cost of tickets for European countries by 3-4 times," Korniychuk added.

Earlier, Ukrainian diplomats managed to evacuate an injured Ukrainian boy and provide medical assistance.

As Oleg Nikolenko said, diplomats carried out a successful rescue operation - they carried a Ukrainian boy who was injured in a militant attack out of the city of Sderot.

Were Ukrainians evacuated from the Gaza Strip?

At the same time, the Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs foiled the planned evacuation of Ukrainians and other foreigners from the Gaza Strip. This was announced by the Commissioner for Human Rights of the Verkhovna Rada, Dmytro Lubinets, on a telethon.

"243 of our citizens, and today there are two of them seriously injured by shelling. These people moved south of Gaza, closer to Rafah, to a checkpoint. Some are in the open, some with friends, others are staying in shelters," said Ukrainian ambassador to Israel Yevhen Korniychuk in a comment to the Interfax-Ukraine agency.