The president of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obradorpointed out this Tuesday that there are already close to 1,000 nationals who are seeking help from the Mexican Government to leave Israel after having been trapped in the war that broke out over the weekend.
There are about 1,000 Mexicans registered to move,” the president said during his morning press conference.
The president specified that he is about to arrive “if not he has already arrived in Tel Aviv,” a first Air Force plane to transport Mexicans in Israelwhere in a first count there were 300 who were seeking to return to Mexico.
The second will arrive later and the Ministry of (Foreign) Relations is in communication with the Israeli authorities so that the facilities can be provided,” he pointed out.
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As López Obrador himself said on Monday, In Israel there are an estimated 5,000 Mexican citizensalthough only a fifth of them have signed up on the lists of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (SRE) to leave the country since the armed conflict broke out last Saturday.
Besides, The president now reiterated that he is still pending the location of two missing Mexicans who were in Israel when the armed conflict began.
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.
Meanwhile, relatives reported this Monday the discovery alive of the Mexican David Heiblum and his wife, the Panamanian Daryelis Denises Sáez, who were also missing.
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, with 2.3 million inhabitants, resulting in at least 765 deaths, with more than 4,000 injured, in the blockaded enclave. Israeli since 2007, when Hamas took control of the territory.
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