The German Foreign Ministry said on Monday that Germany is organizing charter flights from the Jordanian capital, Amman, to the western city of Frankfurt on Wednesday, in light of the closure of Israeli airspace due to the missile exchange with Iran.
In Poland, Deputy Foreign Minister Henryka Mosicka-Dindis announced in Warsaw on Monday the launch of a plan to evacuate Polish citizens from Israel. Approximately 200 people have registered to participate in the operation.
In the same context, Slovakia has begun airlifting Slovak citizens and other EU citizens from Israel via Jordan and Cyprus.
For its part, the Italian Foreign Ministry announced on Tuesday that it had evacuated dozens of its citizens from Iran in convoys heading to Azerbaijan and Turkey on Monday.
In turn, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters on Tuesday that the Russian embassy in Tehran is working "around the clock" to ensure that Russian citizens can leave Iran through a checkpoint on the border with Azerbaijan.
For its part, China, which also has close economic and diplomatic ties with Iran, advised its citizens to leave Israel as soon as possible via the land border, recommending crossing into Jordan.
Pakistan has begun voluntarily repatriating its citizens from Iran by bus to land border crossings.
Since dawn on Friday, Israel, with US support, has launched an aggression against Iran, bombing nuclear facilities and missile bases, and assassinating military leaders and nuclear scientists, leaving 224 dead and 1,277 wounded. Tehran has responded with ballistic missiles and drones, leaving approximately 24 dead and hundreds wounded.
Tel Aviv and Tehran consider each other their arch-enemies, and Israel's current aggression against Iran is the most extensive of its kind, representing a transition from a "shadow war" of bombings and assassinations to an open military conflict.
