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| Zakharova announces preparations for the evacuation of Russians living in Palestine | |
| 2023-10-11 | |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. [Regnum] Russian citizens in Israel can leave this country, since flights continue to operate, and the issue of evacuating Russian citizens from Palestine is being worked out, Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on October 10.
“The possibility of evacuating fellow citizens who asked for help from the combat zone is being explored. And Russian diplomatic missions are preparing relevant lists and providing the necessary assistance to those in need,” Zakharova said at a ministry briefing. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has instructed diplomatic departments to maintain close contacts with fellow citizens, and citizens themselves are also recommended to be in touch with diplomats to minimize threats, she noted. Earlier, the press secretary of the Russian mission to the Palestinian National Authority, Aliya Zaripova, said that 400 people had already expressed a desire to leave the Gaza Strip, including citizens of Ukraine and Belarus. On October 10, the Israel Defense Forces announced the launch of a large-scale attack on Hamas targets in the Gaza Strip. The autonomy authorities, in turn, reported that the death toll from Israeli strikes in the Gaza Strip and on the West Bank of the Jordan River reached 788 people. As a result of attacks by Hamas in Israel, two Russian citizens were killed, the Russian Embassy reported. One of the dead was a 47-year-old native of the Kaliningrad region, who worked in the Israeli police, reported IA Regnum . Hamas representatives stated that among those captured were dozens of people with dual citizenship, including Russian. This information is being verified, the Kremlin noted. The Russian Foreign Ministry previously urged Russian citizens not to travel to Israel and the Palestinian territories, and fellow citizens already there to exercise maximum caution. On October 7, Hamas launched a rocket attack on Israeli territory, and several settlements were also captured. Israel launched retaliatory strikes on the Gaza Strip. According to official data, more than 900 people were killed in Israel, more than 100 people were captured, and almost 800 people were killed in the Gaza Strip. The Israeli authorities announced the transfer of the state to a state of war. The Israel Defense Forces said that 300,000 reservists had been called up for service and that the operation was moving “to the phase of the complete destruction of Hamas.” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced the start of a ground operation against Hamas in the Gaza Strip. The Hamas strike on Israel was an unexpected catastrophe for the local authorities and a failure for Washington, an expert at the Association of Military Political Scientists, an associate professor of the Department of Political Science and Sociology at the Russian Economic University, noted earlier in an interview with IA Regnum . G. V. Plekhanov Oleg Glazunov . The incident indicates the loss of influence of the United States in the Middle East, the expert believes. | |
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