Overview

• On June 22, 160 French nationals classified as emergency or vulnerable arrived at Paris-Orly on a flight chartered from Amman by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
• French A400M transport planes have been deployed to carry citizens from Tel Aviv’s Ben Gurion airport to Cyprus under an Israeli approval framework
• Approximately 250,000 French live in Israel with 100,000 registered on consular lists and the Quai d’Orsay’s crisis center handled over 4,500 assistance calls in one week
• A Royal Jordanian commercial flight will repatriate 150 French on June 23 from Amman and the foreign ministry will operate a June 24 charter for more than 150 vulnerable nationals
• The evacuation drive follows US bombings of three Iranian nuclear sites on June 22 and an Iranian barrage of about 40 missiles targeting Ben Gurion airport and a biological research center