More than 800 Canadians, permanent residents and family members are known to have left Iran,, Israel And the West Bank since the government began to offer help to those who seek to escape the deadly conflict, according to officials.
Global Affairs Canada said in its daily update on Wednesday evening that the agency was also aware of many Canadians in the Middle East region who reached security independently.
A The tenuous ceasefire between Israel and Iran seemed to hold For a third day Thursday, after 12 days of missile and drone attacks between the two countries.
After the American attack on Sunday against Iranian nuclear installations, US President Donald Trump helped negotiate a cease-fire that entered into force on Tuesday. Other negotiations between the United States and Iran are expected next week.
“Tensions between Israel and Iran remain high” despite the ceasefire, the Minister of Foreign Affairs Anita Anand on Thursday said in a position of social media.
On Thursday, Iran partially reopened its airspace for the eastern half of the country with national and international flights, including those which pass an Iranian airspace. The airspace had been closed since the initial attack of Israel against Iran two weeks ago.
Since last week, Canadian consular officials have been helping people to leave Iran for safe third countries from which they can go home. They did the same for Canadians in Israel, whose main international airport was closed to commercial flights until Tuesday and in the West Bank.
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Global Affairs Canada said on Wednesday, the buses guaranteed by the government of Tel Aviv and Ramallah in Jordan had put seven people in security.
The day before, 95 people traveled on a plane responsible for the government of Jordan in Greece, where consular officials provided additional help to travelers.
The government’s emergency center in Ottawa has responded to more than 6,000 calls, emails and messages from Canadians in the Middle East by asking for help or information since June 13, said Wednesday update.
“All Canadians, permanent residents and eligible family members who have requested help from the Government of Canada to leave the region received information on the available departure options,” he said.
The government urges relatives of Canadians and permanent residents of Iran to register on their behalf for the registration service of citizens abroad and to provide their mobile phone numbers so that they can receive SMS updates.
On Wednesday, there were nearly 5,550 registered with the service in Iran and 6,400 others in Israel, the West Bank and Gaza. Global Affairs of Canada have noted that these figures do not reflect the exact number of Canadians in these countries, because the registration service is voluntary and can contain obsolete information.
The US State Department said on Tuesday that it had helped around 400 American citizens and other people who have stolen from Israel since Saturday, while hundreds of people had left Iran via neighboring Azerbaijan.
The ministry had shared information with more than 27,000 people on leaving the region and security and security, compared to 25,000 last week.
Dozens of other countries have helped their citizens to evacuate the region since the conflict broke out, mainly by helping people to leave for secure countries on land or at sea.
Earlier this week, Tehran said that 606 people had been killed in the conflict in Iran, with 5,332 people injured. The group of human rights activists based in Washington published figures on Wednesday suggesting that Israeli strikes on Iran had killed at least 1,054 and wounded 4,476.
The group, which provided detailed figures from victims of several problems of troubles in Iran, said that 417 of the people killed were civilians and 318 were security forces.
According to officials, at least 28 people were killed in Israel and more than 1,000 injured.
– with files from the Associated Press and Reuters
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