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The United States government on Thursday said it was working to organise charter flights to help US citizens leave Israel as the country reels from the massive attack by Hamas terrorists.
Fears of a regional conflagration have surged amid expectations of a looming Israeli ground incursion into Gaza, the crowded enclave from where Hamas launched its land, air and sea attack on Saturday.
The US State Department had noted that the known death toll of US citizens in the violence had risen to “at least 22.”
SaharaReporters earlier reported that Russian Foreign Minister, Sergey Lavrov, said that the escalation of violence in the Middle East should provide an impetus for implementing a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
The Russian top diplomat spoke Thursday to journalists in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, after meeting his counterparts from the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), a regional intergovernmental organisation composed of former parts of the Soviet Union.
This was as death toll on both sides crossed 2500 persons.
“Beginning tomorrow, (the) United States government will arrange charter flights to provide transportation from Israel to sites in Europe,” said White House national security spokesman John Kirby.
According to France 24, Kirby added that officials were “still working through some of the details”