The Israeli national airline, the AL, announced on Monday that more than 60,000 people were on the waiting list for rescue flights to Israel just an hour and a half after the link to register on its website was enabled.
“We understand the difficulty of the uncertainty and frustration that entails the desire to return home as soon as possible, and we are prepared to operate flights with the frequency authorized by the State,” said the company in a statement released by Facebook. “Please have patience,” he added.
Estimates on the number of Israeli citizens stranded abroad due to the closure of airspace vary between tens of thousands and more than one hundred thousand, according to Israeli media, after the offensive launched by Israel against Iran last Friday.
He reported in addition to cancels his entire regular flight program, as well as that of his Sindor subsidiary, at least until Monday, June 23, 2025.
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However, and following instructions from the Israeli Ministry of Transportation, the airline is organizing special rescue flights from several destinations to Israel.
Israel has been carrying out a massive campaign of bombing on different parts of the Iranian territory, which so far have left at least 224 dead and more than a thousand injured, according to Tehran authorities.
The Benjamín Netanyahu government justified the beginning of the offensive claiming that it had intelligence information that aimed at advances of the Iranian regime in its plan to develop a nuclear weapon.
In response, Iran has launched attacks in the last three days that have caused at least 24 dead in Israel, according to the last balance published Monday by the Prime Minister’s office.
With EFE information.
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