Dutch people in Israel will be repatriated from Wednesday. They can go home on a Defense plane on Wednesday and probably on a KLM plane on Thursday, says Foreign Minister Hanke Bruins Slot. About two hundred people would be provisionally eligible.
Dutch people in Israel who want to leave the country since Saturday’s terror attack and the subsequent violence have so far had to rely on themselves.
But “in recent days it has proven increasingly difficult to book a flight home,” Bruins Slot noted. She therefore decided to facilitate the repatriation of Dutch pupils, students and other travelers who were in danger of becoming stranded in Israel.
A military flight will leave Eindhoven on Wednesday to pick up Dutch people, Minister Kajsa Ollongren (Defense) said. The aircraft will probably also arrive back in Eindhoven.
If circumstances permit, a KLM charter will follow on Thursday. “It is very nice that both Defense and KLM have shown themselves so willingly,” says Bruins Slot.