US to Offer Charter Flights for Citizens to Leave Israel
- State Department spokesman says flights to start on Friday
- US also looking at land and sea options to evacuate Americans
A destroyed police station in Sderot, Israel. A State Department spokesman said charter flights would start on Friday.
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The US government will begin offering charter flights to transport American citizens and immediate family members who are seeking to leave Israel after the deadly attack by Hamas, National Security Council spokesman John Kirby said.
Kirby told reporters at a White House briefing Thursday that the administration does not have an estimate for how many Americans are seeking to leave the country but asked US citizens in Israel who want help evacuating to fill out an intake form on the US State Department website. Kirby said the US is also looking for ways to evacuate its citizens by land and sea.