This morning he came to Montevideo the plane crew Hercules of the Uruguayan Air Force (FAU) that carried out the two humanitarian flights to evacuate more than 150 people from Israel after the war began with Hamas in Middle East. “Mission accomplished,” highlighted the Minister of National Defense, Javier García
Two weeks after the war in the Middle East began after the terrorist attacks by Hamas and the war response by Israel, Uruguay can end the rescue missions in the conflict zone, after the Hercules crew returned to the country. The FAU team managed to repatriate more than 150 people who requested it in the operation coordinated by the Ministries of Defense and External relationshipswhose first contingent was rescued from the European country a week ago.
The majority of the evacuated people are Uruguayans, but there were also foreigners, of different nationalities. Among the passengers who took out from Tel Aviv There were 25 children on the Hercules, said the commander of the Hercules Martin Campoamor, who highlighted “the gratitude” of all those who boarded “the plane of Uruguay”.
For his part, Minister García pointed out the “enormous pride” what he feels after the task carried out by the Uruguayan crew made up of 16 troops in total. “Mission accomplished, and excellently accomplished,” said the minister at a press conference at the foot of the Hercules and next to the mission commander, Campoamor.
Mujica called for the release of Latin American hostages
The ex-president Jose Mujica he claimed to the terrorist group Hamas the release of Latin American hostages captured in Israel and asked “that they be left alive,” referring again to the war being fought in Middle East.
Days after the return of Uruguayans from the war conflict zone on two humanitarian flights, Mujica admitted that Hamas will not solve the problem Palestine sacrificing people”, in reference to the nearly 30 hostages of Latin America captured (of which about 20 would be Argentine), out of a total of at least 203 captives, according to the Israeli government.
The former president opened the video by pointing out that “sometimes, things happen that hurt us and we realize that we would like to do something, but we can’t do much” and added: “To those who believe in some divine form, I ask you please, and in this case to the Palestinians, who have a handful of Latin American hostages in Loop, “Let them be left alive, let them reach their towns.”
Mujica admitted “the just cause that it could have had historically Palestine”, but he warned that the terrorists “are not going to solve the problem by sacrificing people who are actually compatriots of Latin America”.
“And it hurts us, therefore, on behalf of my compatriots, I dare to ask and beg the people who are holding this handful of Latin Americans hostage to let them return to their homes, to do it for the God they believe in and for hope,” he said. Finally, the former president expressed: “We feel pain and a debt of humanity, in the greatest sense of the term. Goodbye and may God, if he exists, help us.”
Source: Ambito
