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The first flight will arrive Thursday at 8:35 p.m. at Paris-Charles de Gaulle airport. Vulnerable people will be treated as a priority.
Several special flights will be organized on Friday October 13 and Saturday October 14 between Israel and France to allow nationals who have not yet found a commercial flight to return to national territory, the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced on Thursday.
“Vulnerable people (unaccompanied minors and pregnant women in particular), with disabilities or in medical situations presenting a particular emergency, will be given priority.», specifies the Quai d’Orsay, which ensures that it works “with Air France to resume its commercial flights as soon as possible“.
A first special Air France flight to repatriate French people will leave Tel Aviv this Thursday at 4:40 p.m. (2:40 p.m. GMT) for an arrival at 8:35 p.m. (6:35 p.m. GMT) at Paris-Charles de Gaulle airport. Dozens of foreigners have been killed, taken hostage or disappeared since the Islamist movement Hamas attacked Israel on Saturday.
At least 12 French people dead and 17 missing
The war triggered by this Hamas offensive left thousands dead and nearly 150 hostages. At least 12 French people have died in Israel and 17 others are missing, including several children.probably removed» by Hamas, according to the government.
France, through its President Emmanuel Macron, strongly condemned the “terrorist attacks carried out by Hamas» and affirmed his “full support» to Israel, as well as its “attachment” to his “right to defend oneself“.
The Head of State, accompanied by Prime Minister Élisabeth Borne, was to meet at midday the leaders of the 11 parties represented in Parliament, as well as the presidents of the Senate, the National Assembly and the Economic, Social and Environmental Council , to discuss the situation “following terrorist acts committed in Israel“. Subsequently, he will address the French in a televised address at 8:00 p.m.