(Ottawa) A first bus with a group of Canadians on board crossed the border between the West Bank and Jordan.
“I am delighted to announce that the first group of Canadians have now safely crossed the West Bank into Jordan,” Canadian Foreign Minister Mélanie Joly wrote on X.
“Thank you to our teams in Ramallah, Amman, Tel Aviv and Ottawa, who worked night and day to make this happen,” she added.
Details on the number of Canadians evacuated will come later in the day, the minister’s office was informed.
According to the most recent report, some 250 people were in the West Bank.
On the Israeli side, to date, more than 1,000 passengers have left Israel on Canadian flights to Athens.
These flights included hundreds of Canadians as well as Israelis, Americans, Australians, Greeks and Brazilians.
Flights should take place this Monday, October 16, “and as needed,” Global Affairs Canada said on Sunday.
It remains to be seen what will happen to the approximately 300 Canadians stuck in the Gaza Strip, who were unable to take advantage of the evacuation window of a few hours which opened on Saturday at the Rafah border crossing, which leads to Egypt.