Germany warns against travel to Israel,

Germany warns against travel to Israel,
flies out citizens.

International News Desk

According to global Times news Agency Europe, The German Foreign Office issued a travel warning for Israel, the Palestinian Territories and Lebanon on Sunday, as the situation escalates in the Middle East, The Global Times Europe informs.A travel warning was already in place for Gaza, while travel to Israel and the Palestinian Territories was previously strongly discouraged. The warnings come ahead of a widely expected offensive by Israel into Gaza, after the militant Palestinian organization Hamas, which controls the strip, launched large-scale attacks on Israel last weekend. Berlin was also continuing to fly citizens to safety amid fears that the conflict will further expand. German military transport aircraft which flew out passengers from Israel landed in Germany on Sunday morning, the armed forces in Berlin said. One A400M transporter landed in Wunstorf, in the north-western German state of Lower Saxony with 51 passengers, at 4:35 am (0235 GMT), the Bundeswehr said on social media platform X, formerly Twitter. Another transport aircraft carrying 29 passengers landed at 7 am. A third flight landed in mid-afternoon at Berlin’s BER airport. It was carrying 82 passengers who had boarded in Tel Aviv, bringing the tetal to 162. Tensions mounting at Israeli-Lebanon border has potential of second Israeli front
A fourth flight with 60 passengers on board landed in Wunstorf at 2:45 am on Monday, the Bundeswehr said. Airline Lufthansa has been flying Germans out of Israel on special flights this week, with more than 800 flown to Germany on Friday alone. But the German carrier said on Saturday it was pausing those flights due to security issues and unresolved questions of operational stability in Tel Aviv.The German Foreign Office said it has supported some 2,800 Germans leaving Israel via land, air and sea so far. Meanwhile, Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock said the German government still has had no direct contact with the German hostages held in the Gaza Strip. This was one of the main issues during my visit to Israel and also during my visit afterwards to Egypt,” the minister said on German public broadcaster ARD on Sunday evening. According to earlier reports, a single-digit number of German dual nationals are suspected to be among the approximately 150 hostages abducted by Hamas last weekend.
An Israeli army spokesman, Arye Sharuz Shalicar, hinted on the TV programme that the hostages could be in tunnels in the Gaza Strip, some of them 30 to 40 metres deep: That’s a pretty scary scenario.
Among the abductees, he said, were many children, including a 9-month-old baby.Several countries have been scrambling to get their citizens out of Israel since Hamas fighters launched thousands of rockets toward Israel, breached border defences and rampaged across communities of southern Israel a week ago. The surge in violence was unleashed by Islamist organization Hamas which launched thousands of rockets toward Israel while hundreds of its fighters breached border defences in an unprecedented attack last weekend that left more than 1,300 dead.
Hamas is classified as a terrorist organization by the United States, European Union and Israel.