The Il-76 plane belonging to the Russian Ministry of Emergencies landed at Domodedovo Airport to carry the second group of Russian citizens evacuated from the Gaza Strip. This was reported by TASS head of the ministry’s press service Roman Okhotenko.
The Russians boarded the Il-76 plane belonging to the Russian Ministry of Emergencies. The second group consisted of 98 people.
“They were accompanied on the flight by medical workers and psychologists from the Ministry of Emergencies,” Okhotenko said.
It was previously reported that a plane carrying a second Russian group landed from Gaza on the evening of November 14. flew out To Moscow.
At the capital’s Domodedovo airport on the evening of November 13 landed The plane carrying the first group of Russian citizens to leave the Gaza Strip. The plane arrived in Moscow at 21.14 with approximately 70 people on board.
Later the press service of the Ministry of Emergencies of the Russian Federation reportedThe second group of people evacuated from the Palestinian area moved to Cairo. According to the ministry, a total of 99 Russians, including 43 children, went to the Egyptian capital.
The situation in the Middle East escalated after thousands of Hamas militants infiltrated Israel from the Gaza Strip on October 7, when Hamas announced the launch of Operation Al-Aqsa Flood. In response, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announcedthat the country is at war.
The aim of Israel’s response to Operation Iron Sword was to repel the attack, release more than 200 hostages, including foreigners, and destroy Hamas. In order to achieve this goal, Israel launched major rocket attacks on the Gaza Strip from the first day of the operation. At the same time, the Israeli National Security Council decided to stop the supply of water, food, goods, electricity and fuel to the sector. Humanitarian aid shipments to Gaza began to be sent through the Rafah checkpoint only after October 20, and it was stated that their volume was insufficient.
27 October Israel announced About the “expansion” of the ground operation in Gaza. It is not known exactly when the operation started, but before the operation, hundreds of thousands of Palestinians fled their homes and moved to shelters and the south of the region. As part of the Israeli army’s ground operation on 5 November surrounded Gaza city and supplies cut off, still exists in central Gaza to continue fights.
Former far-right Israeli National Security Minister Ben-Gvir statedHe said it was not enough to send only “hundreds of tons of explosives” and “not even a gram of humanitarian aid” to Gaza until the civilian hostages were released.