Operation Ajay: Two more flights from Israel arrive in Delhi
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New Delhi: As part of ‘Operation Ajay’, an effort to evacuate the Indian nationals stuck in war-torn Israel, two more flights landed in the national capital on Sunday morning.
The third flight from Tel Aviv arrived at Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International Airport at around 4 a.m. with 197 passengers.
The Indian nationals were received by Union Minister Kaushal Kishore, who greeted them with the Indian National flag upon their arrival.
The fourth flight carrying 274 Indian nationals from Israel, arrived at Delhi airport around 7 a.m.
On Saturday, 235 Indian nationals had arrived from Israel on the second flight, while on Thursday 212 people arrived under the special operation.
Addressing a flurry of questions on the Israel-Palestine conflict, which escalated last week after the Hamas group launched rocket attacks on Tel Aviv, Ministry of External Affairs spokesperson Arindam Bagchi had said that the government's prime focus was to bring back 18,000 Indians including students stuck there.
At least 1,300 Israeli nationals, most of them civilians were killed in a surprise attack by Hamas last Saturday. Israel also launched counter-operations in which over 1,500 people have been killed in Palestine.
With inputs from IANS