EPAThousands of Britons have been trapped in Israel and are unable to leave, as Iran and Israel have been going to attack each other for days in severe conflict.
Israeli airspace will be closed until the next notice and all the aircraft are demolished, there is no sign of the imminent break in hostility.
Iran has launched hundreds of missiles and drones in Israel for the past few days in retaliation for Israeli attack on its military infrastructure.
Talking to the BBC, British citizens Talking about the sleepless nights that have been paused by the wailing of the sirons, there are constant trips to bomb the shelter and the uncertainty that they will be able to come home.
Many of those trapped are urging the UK government to do more to help them, but the BBC understands that there are no plans to evacuate at this stage.
UK has a government Advised against all travel to Israel And told the British citizens of the country to follow local guidance.
Hartfordshire’s teacher Debora Kleedon, 41, had to travel to Israel last Wednesday and be a three -day tour to attend his cousin’s wedding.
As the missiles fly on the overhead, she is trapped in Herzla on the central coast of Israel with her 81 -year -old mother.
Three hours after he returned from the wedding last Thursday evening, he told the BBC, “We heard the sirons and had to go to the bombshell.”
“It was a two -parts trip: from Elation to fear.”
Every night, MS said that he had warned many times by warning about incoming missiles and counting to come to shelter. They say they are lucky, because they have a paved shelter of their hotel, but they say, “It’s terrible and a lot of people are terrified.”
“I am positive because my mum is here with me,” says three mothers. “But it is terrible. I don’t want to be here anymore. I don’t want to wake up three times overnight thinking that I can hit the missile. I want to go home for my job and my children.”
At least 24 people have died in Israel, the Israeli Prime Minister’s Office said. The Ministry of Health in Iran said that by Sunday, Israeli attacks have killed more than 200 people across the country.
As he entered the fifth day on Tuesday, both countries vowed further revenge.
Tell Aviv’s main international airport was shut down on Friday and will not open until further notice, officials said. All flights to Israel and outside are suspended and canceled thousands.
About 40,000 tourists in the country are trapped, the Israeli Tourism Ministry said. Tell Aviv, who traveled to Tel Aviv for his annual Pride Parade, will take place on Friday, and the hostility has been canceled.
Some people are thinking of leaving Israel to the neighboring Jordan or Egypt by land crossing.
Tuesday, M.S. Kleedon, along with a group of tourists from other countries, started a long journey through a car to the border of Egypt, where they planned to travel to Sharm El-Sheik and fly home.
Bringing his mother is “very dangerous,” he said, he stays in a neighboring town with his brother.
MS, who spoke to BBC before the journey. Cladon said he was “terrified.”
“It’s a very unstable, uncertain situation. I am not safe to go or I am safe to stay? Both are not safe. You don’t know when the airport will open. Days, weeks.”
For some Britans, it is impossible to travel by land.
Hannah Leon-Singer, 43, arrived at Zafa last Tuesday to look after his father, after he was hospitalized with her mother on holidays in Israel. A few hours after the release of them after the cardiovascular procedure, he says, “The war broke out.”
Three from London, the situation said that the situation was a pressure when her father had to recover from her elderly parents, especially her eighties.
“We hear the explosions outside,” he told the BBC. “Some of them are really close. We have direct hits within a couple of kilometers in the last two nights.”
It is “hotter” in the shelter, he said.
M.S. Leon-Singer is desperate to go home to her children and her father needs further treatment in the UK, but traveling for hours to the border is not feasible in his current state.
He has called on the UK government to support British citizens better to return home.
“There is no guidance other than a warning not to travel to Israel,” he says.
“They may have been offering a safe journey to Egypt or after the airspace opened, we can reassure us that they provide evacuation ways, but they have not given us any help.
“My fear is that after the airspace is opened, commercial flights may not start again.”
London’s 79 -year -old Howard Youngwood traveled to Israel earlier this month for his granddaughter’s Bar Mitzwa. When the hostility broke out, the age of the Jewish arrival was curtailed and they were ordered to relocate Kibutz near Jerusalem.
“We are tired,” he said. “We spend a lot of time – a hobby in my case – going to shelter. It is causing a loss, especially when you ask for casualties.”
A retired judge with a number of diseases, including mobility problems, is unable to try to cross the land and is not considered a safe choice.
Angus AD, who was trapped in Tel Aviv with his 22 -year -old son Samuel, said the situation was “terrible” and the UK government was “lacking care”.
Since his flight was canceled on Friday, they were under the shelter and were outside. On Monday, the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange in front of the Gymnasia ISROTEL was an echo of a massive explosion in ISROTEL, the hotel announced that it was shutting down and they should seek further shelter.
“It seems that the situation is becoming more and more difficult,” he said.
Mr. AD said that he was advised to register for email alerts and phoned the British embassy every day.
“We personally went to the embassy (Monday) and they don’t talk to us. It shocked the lack of care.”
Planning Foreign Office (FCDO) advised Israel against all travel “The” fast moving situation that pose significant risks “is capable of worsening” further worsening, quickly and without caution “.
Even the official advice Iran advocates against all travel.
Tourists from other countries are also caught. The BBC spoke to the Johnner’s family from the US Sunday, quarreling when and how to try to leave.
Poland said it would start evacuating its 200 civilians in the coming days.
On Monday, Deputy Foreign Minister Henrica Moska-Dendis said that “those who are trapped as a tourist” will leave Jordan’s capital Amman and then fly to Warsaw.
Meanwhile, the German Foreign Ministry has called on both Iran and Israel to access their contact details in an online emergency system. About 4,000 people have done so in Israel and about 1,000 Iran. The spokesperson said there were currently no evacuation plans from both countries.
But other countries have evacuated its civilians – on Tuesday morning, the Defense Minister has confirmed that the Czech government plane has landed in Prague carrying 66 people from Israel.
It is estimated that about 100,000 Israelis are abroad and are unable to return to Israel. Officials have advised the Israelites not to try for land crossings and not wait for safe travel options due to security risks.
