Asrael announced that she has evacuated more than two hundred of her citizens from Bahir Dar and Gondar, the cities of the Amhara region where conflicts took place in the past few days.
Since last week, land and air transport services have been suspended for days due to clashes between government forces and Fano militants in various areas of the Amhara region.
Following the crisis in the Amhara region, where many Israelis are located, the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Israeli Embassy in Ethiopia, the Israeli Prime Minister’s Office, the Israeli Security Council and the Jewish Institute have been involved in the process of evicting their citizens.
Through this, 174 from Gondar city and 30 Israeli citizens from Bahir Dar on Thursday August 04/2015. The office of the Prime Minister of Israel announced that they were ordered to leave.
For a week, clashes and shootings have been going on in many areas of the region, including the big cities in the Amhara region, and it is known that the federal government has declared a state of emergency in the region.
Following this, the countries urged their citizens not to travel to the Amhara region and their citizens in the region to be careful and stay where they are until it is possible to leave.
Following the escalation of the conflict, it is known that Ethiopian Airlines has canceled its flights to the cities of Amhara region.
On Wednesday, the state of emergency announced that federal government forces had retaken control of six towns from insurgents, and that the towns would return to normal activities and all services would resume.
According to this, it is known that Ethiopian Airlines has resumed the canceled flights for Thursday, and the Israeli government has announced the evacuation of its citizens after the start of the flight.
In order to coordinate a mission to evacuate their citizens, it is stated that the Prime Minister of Israel had a discussion with the heads of various institutions of the country a few days ago.
In this mission, before the 204 Israelis left Bahir Dar and Gondar, the Israeli embassy in Ethiopia and the country’s foreign affairs office in Jerusalem stayed in contact with most of their citizens for 24 hours.
Later on Wednesday night, the Israelis were taken to Gondar and Bahir Dar airports after they were made to meet at the designated assembly points to allow them to leave their cities.
They were taken to Addis Ababa on Thursday by means of prearranged special flights at the airports. According to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the citizens will stay in Addis Ababa until they decide to return to Israel.
It was revealed that this mission to evacuate the Israelis was assisted by a situation room in the Israeli Foreign Ministry, and the team included diplomats, staff of the Jewish Institute and members of the Israeli army who could speak Amharic.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu thanked those who participated in the evacuation, saying, “Israel protects its citizens wherever they are.” In the last days, there was a conflict in the area of Ethiopia. I have ordered them to leave,” he said, adding that his country welcomes its citizens.
