The Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced today, Wednesday, at dawn, the successful completion of the operation to repatriate 105 Greeks from Israel amid the clashes between Tel Aviv and Tehran.
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The process was completed through Egypt, with the use of Air Force aircraft.
Shortly after 03:45 in the morning of Wednesday (18/6), the first, a C-27, of the three aircraft of the Hellenic Air Force, landed at the 112th Combat Wing, in Elefsina.
Greek citizens traveled by road from Israel to Egypt and from there they arrived by air to Greece. Ten minutes after the first aircraft, the second C-27 landed. At 04:35 the C-130 also landed.
"All well, all calm" was the words of the Greeks who arrived in Eleusis.
Outside the military airport were cars with relatives of civilians.
The rest boarded buses that took them to the center of Athens, from where they were picked up by their own people.
The repatriation operation
"Under the coordination of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Embassies of Greece in Tel Aviv and Cairo and the Consulate General of Greece in Jerusalem, the operation to repatriate 105 Greek citizens and their family members from Israel was safely completed today, Wednesday, June 18."
"The repatriates were transferred to Athens from Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, on C-130 and C-27 aircraft of the Air Force," the statement said.
It is added that many other citizens, Europeans and Americans, were removed from the war zone with the Greek wings.
"Through the above flight, the return of citizens of European and third countries, including Albania, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, France, Germany, Georgia, Switzerland, the USA, Italy, Cyprus, Lithuania, Hungary, Portugal, Romania and Sweden, was also facilitated," the statement said.
It is stressed that "the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the diplomatic and consular authorities of Greece in the region remain in full readiness to provide every possible assistance".
