An A400M military plane in Tel Aviv to repatriate French nationals from Israel
An A400M military transport aircraft landed on Tuesday morning at Tel Aviv Tuesday morning to transport vulnerable French or binational nationals wishing to leave Israel, under the threat of Iranian strikes, the French Defense Staff announced.
In a message on X, the staff reminds that the device, capable of transporting a hundred passengers, was “Committed to the request of the President of the Republic to support the voluntary departure of nationals from an area under tension where the situation remains volatile”.
The A400M was then to join Cyprus, a few hundred kilometers away, from which passengers will then be able to take commercial flights to reach France.
According to Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot, the military aircraft was to take charge of nationals “The most fragile”which have not been able to win Jordan, hence commercial repatriation flights have been organized in recent days.
After two flights on Sunday and Monday, a third commercial flight from Amman is scheduled for Wednesday, he said on Monday evening on the France 2 channel.
