Foreign Minister Santiago Cafiero confirmed that the amount of Argentines who registered to return to the country from Israel amounts to 1,304 people and assured that they will begin “working on an air bridge between Tel Aviv and Rome.”
Repatriation operation
The operation aims to bring Argentines who are in Israel “with the greatest speed” possible. “Based on the task we carry out with the Ministry of Defense and with Argentinian airlines, we will start working on an air bridge between Tel Aviv and Rome”, the chancellor highlighted in journalistic statements.
Along these lines, Cafiero explained that it is a job where also Hercules C-130 aircraft participate of the Air Force and that “will begin the airlift tasks in the next few hours.”
Likewise, he pointed out that The Argentine Foreign Ministry “is working together with the Argentine Israelite Mutual Association (AMIA) so that through private initiatives, we can evacuate Argentines more quickly.”
The operation to repatriate the Argentines who are in Israel and who were surprised by the attacks of the Hamas terrorist organization will involve surprising diplomatic-military logistics to be able to remove the citizens who requested it to the war zone.
The operation is in charge of the operational commander of the Joint Chiefs of Staff of the Armed Forces, Jorge Fabián Berredo, who detailed that the C130 Hercules plane which departed this Tuesday from the El Palomar Air Base will arrive in the Middle East on Wednesday, after a series of stops.
Argentina demanded the release of hostages
coffee demanded in radio statements that “Hamas accept the request of the international community for the hostages to be released“, among whom would be some Argentines.
In addition, he confirmed that Argentina “joins the call” to “promptly an international humanitarian intervention can be made effective that guarantees life and full exercise of human rights of Israeli and Palestinian boys and girls.” In that sense, he stressed that priority must be given “first of all to the children” and requested that “the Israeli forces that are operating in Gaza allow an evacuation so that the population can leave. civilian of the conflict zone”.
Source: Ambito
