Countries around the world are taking measures to evacuate their citizens from Israel and Iran as the two nations enter the seventh day of their air war and airspace in the region remains closed.
Here are some of the countries whose citizens have left:
AUSTRALIA
The Australian government evacuated by land a small group of the 1,200 Australians seeking to leave Israel on Wednesday, Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong said on Thursday.
Around 2,000 Australians in Iran have registered for assistance.
CHINA
China has evacuated more than 1,600 citizens from Iran and hundreds more from Israel, a Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson said on Thursday. Several thousand Chinese nationals are thought to reside in Iran, according to state media reports.
UNITED STATES
The United States is working to evacuate U.S. citizens wishing to leave Israel by arranging flights and cruise ship departures, U.S. ambassador Mike Huckabee said in a post on X on Wednesday.
FRANCE
France will arrange a convoy by the end of the week from Iran to the Turkish or Armenian borders, French foreign minister Jean-Noel Barrot said on Thursday.
French citizens in Israel can board buses starting Friday morning from the Jordanian border, with a flight chartered from Amman, Barrot said.
GERMANY
345 German citizens have left the Middle East region, the foreign ministry said, after the country provided charter flights to Germany.
ITALY
Italy is organizing a charter flight from Egypt on June 22 to allow its citizens to leave Israel if they want to.
29 of the about 500 Italian nationals leaving in Iran already left the country on Wednesday with assistance from the government, a diplomatic source said.
Here are the updates today:
Israel’s military said more than 60 of its warplanes hit dozens of targets around Tehran and other sites, including the headquarters of Iran’s nuclear research agency
An Iranian missile struck a technology park in the southern Israeli city of Beersheba, damaging several buildings near an earlier strike. No one was killed, but seven people were taken to hospital for their injuries
Top diplomats from the UK, the EU, Germany and France will meet Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi in Geneva. It’s Iran’s first face-to-face talks with the West since the conflict began last week
