A first plane from the Mexican Air Force with 135 nationals who had been trapped in the Gaza conflict left Israel this Tuesday for Mexicoreported Foreign Minister Alicia Bárcena.
I am happy to report that the first humanitarian flight that brings 135 compatriots back home took off from Israel,” the diplomat said on her account on the social network X, formerly Twitter.
The official also said that the Mexican Government’s commitment is to protect its community and recognized the teams from the Secretariats of National Defense and Foreign Relations for the rescue.
We continue working with exit options,” Bárcena pointed out.
This first plane left on Monday for Israel to begin rescuing the nearly 1,000 Mexicans who were trapped by the war in that country.where there are still missing compatriots, as reported this Tuesday by the Mexican president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador.
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The president did not clarify whether these Mexicans are the two that the Palestinian group Hamas took hostage, as reported on Sunday by Mexican Foreign Minister Alicia Bárcena.
The Enlace Judío site has identified the two kidnapped people as Ilana Gritzewsky and Orión Hernández Rodeux.
The death toll in Israel remains at 900 this Tuesday, with more than 2,800 injured after the Hamas attack on Saturday, in what is the largest escalation of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict in decades.
Israel declared a state of war on Saturday and has responded with bombings on the Gaza Strip, of 2.3 million inhabitants, resulting in at least 765 deaths, with more than 4,000 injured, in the enclave, under Israeli blockade since 2007, when Hamas took control of the territory.
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