The Indian Air Force (IAF) on Tuesday repatriated 286 Indian nationals from Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, who had been residing in Israel. With this, the total number of Indian citizens brought back from Israel has risen to 594.
Union Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs L. Murugan welcomed the Indian nationals upon their arrival in New Delhi.
This is the second IAF flight bringing back the Indians from Israel. Earlier in the day, an IAF flight carrying 165 Indians had arrived in the national capital from Amman.
The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) shared on X, “268 Indian nationals who returned in the third flight from Israel were received by MoS L. Murugan. The IAF C-17 flight from Sharm-El-Sheikh, Egypt, landed in Delhi at 1100 hrs on June 24. 594 Indians have returned so far from Israel as part of Operation Sindhu.”
The IAF joined Operation Sindhu with its C-17 aircraft to evacuate the Indian nationals and the citizens of friendly nations, including Nepal and Sri Lanka, from war-hit Israel and bring them back home to safety.
Earlier today, the MEA said that the Israel leg of Operation Sindhu that started on June 23, via Jordan, marking its first successful repatriation flight, with 161 citizens landed in New Delhi from Amman on Tuesday morning.
Meanwhile, a similar evacuation process continued in Iran, and so far 2,295 Indian nationals have been brought back home, according to the MEA.
The Government of India has launched Operation Sindhu, a strategic evacuation initiative to repatriate Indian nationals stranded in both countries.
(With inputs from IANS)
