France, Indonesia evacuate citizens stranded in Israel and Iran

Published on 25/06/2025 - 3:38 GMT+2

102 French citizens arrived successful Cyprus connected Tuesday aboard a French subject craft aft removal from Israel. The French Ambassador to Cyprus, Clélia Chevrier Kolačko said nan level flew from Tel Aviv to Larnaca.

“I really request to convey them very overmuch (Cypriot authorities), we are offering them shelter present successful Larnaca. And tomorrow they will spell backmost to Paris,” said Kolačko.

France’s Foreign Ministry arranged nan formation retired and much are expected to get to Cyprus connected Wednesday, according to nan ambassador.

Jeremie Khiat said he arrived successful Israel 15 days agone for a picnic pinch friends and family, erstwhile nan missiles started flying astatine nan commencement of nan warfare betwixt Israel and Iran connected 8 June.

He said nan original scheme was to fly to Egypt by autobus connected Monday, but nan French embassy notified them that a subject craft would alert them retired of Ben Gurion Airport connected Tuesday. The Parisian said he was relieved to leave.

“There was for illustration a fewer attacks that were very scary, but everyone is doing great,” noted Khiat.

Cyprus has go a cardinal transit hub for group evacuated from Israel to beryllium repatriated pursuing nan commencement of nan war. Thousands of Israeli citizens stranded overseas person travel to Cyprus to either drawback a formation aliases return location aboard a cruise vessel that brought evacuees.

Cyprus has activated its ESTIA scheme for nan little hosting and repatriation of 3rd state nationals from location conflict areas. The scheme is enacted by nan overseas ministry successful emergencies and nationalist crises.

Meanwhile, nan first commercialized formation evacuating Indonesian citizens from Iran landed successful nan country’s superior connected Tuesday amid escalating location tensions. The first information of 29 evacuees were initially scheduled to alert location connected 3 flights from Azerbaijani capital, Baku.

However, only eleven of them arrived astatine Jakarta’s Soekarno-Hatta International Airport connected Tuesday evening connected a Turkish Airlines flight.

Travel plans for nan remaining evacuees were rescheduled aft 2 Qatar Airways flights were impacted by nan closure of Qatar’s airspace, pursuing Iran’s attacks connected nan US’ Al-Udeid Air Base successful retaliation for Washington’s strikes connected Iranian atomic sites.

Indonesia precocious ordered nan removal of its citizens from nan warring Iran and Israel.

About 386 Indonesians were domiciled successful Iran, galore of whom were studying successful nan country’s metropolis, Qom. As of Tuesday, only 96 Indonesians had near Iran utilizing onshore routes via Azerbaijan – 93 of which were civilians and 3 embassy staff.

Andy Rachmianto, an Indonesian diplomat presently successful complaint of coordinating nan removal of Indonesian citizens from Iran said their embassies successful nan Gulf region are receiving much requests for evacuations arsenic “the escalation of nan conflict is still ongoing and is still very dynamic.”

The Indonesian diplomat added that nan authorities plans to transportation retired a 2nd shape of evacuations for its citizens successful nan region soon.