2023-10-09 22:31:53
The Minister of Defense, Jorge Taiana, assured this Monday that he instructed the Armed Forces to establish an evacuation plan to repatriate the Argentines who are in the area of Israel affected by the Hamas attacks.
“To date, I have instructed the Chief of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (of the Armed Forces), Lieutenant General Juan Martín Paleo, to urgently activate an evacuation plan to repatriate Argentines who are in the conflict zone. in Israel,” Taiana reported on her X network account (formerly Twitter).
For his part, Foreign Minister Santiago Cafiero reported that so far there are 235 Argentines who have registered in the Israeli evacuation registry that the Argentine consulate opened in Tel Aviv, as a result of the attack by the Islamist group Hamas.
Ramiro Hidalgo, the Argentine consul in Tel Aviv, in communication with TN confirmed that there are 7 Argentines who died in Israel: Rodolfo Scariszewski, Silvia Mirensky, Avi Korin, Ronit Rudman, Tair Bira, Tahel Bira and Laura Jazmin Kofman.
I also affirm that the number of missing people rose to 15.
Today, I have instructed the Chief of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Lieutenant General Paleo @EMCOFFA_Arg to urgently activate an evacuation plan to repatriate Argentines who are in the conflict zone in Israel.
— Jorge Taiana (@JorgeTaiana) October 9, 2023
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