The British abandoned in Israel when Iranian strikes continue

Thousands of Britons are in Israel and cannot leave when Iran and Israel continue to attack each other in an enhanced conflict that continues all day.

Israeli airspace is closed to further notice, and all flights were justified, without a rapid pause in hostilities.

Over the past few days, Iran has launched hundreds of missiles and drones in Israel for retaliation for Israeli strikes on their military infrastructure on Friday.

Speaking in front of BBC, British citizens They talked about the sleepless nights, which were carried out by the sirens, permanent trips there to bomb the shelter and uncertainty to know when they could return home.

Many of these respondents press so that the UK government does more to help them, but the BBC realizes that there are no evacuation plans at this stage.

The UK government has advised against all trips to Israel And ordered British citizens in the country to follow local recommendations.

Cleidon’s Deborah, 41 years old, a teacher from Hartfordshire, flew to Israel last Wednesday for being a three -day trip to visit her cousin’s wedding.

She was now trapped in Herzlia on the Central Coast of Israel with her 81-year-old mother when rockets fly over her head.

Three hours after they returned from the wedding last Thursday, “we heard the sirens and had to go to the shelter in the bomb,” she said the BBC.

“It was a trip from two halves: from lifting to fear.”

Each night, Ms Kledon says that she had woke up several times, warning of the entrance missiles and counting to get to the shelter. They were lucky, she said, because their hotel has a well -equipped shelter, but “it’s scary, and many people are panic.”

“I remain positive because my mom is here with me,” the mother says. “But it’s awful. I no longer want to be here. I don’t want me to wake up three times overnight, thinking that a rocket can suffer. I want to go home to my work and my children.”

According to at least 24 people died in Israel on Friday, the Israeli Prime Minister’s office reports. Iran’s health ministry said, as of Sunday, Israeli strikes have killed more than 200 people across the country.

As the hostilities entered the fifth day on Tuesday, both countries promised additional retaliation.

Tel -Aviv’s main international airport was closed on Friday and will not open up to further notice, the authorities said. All flights to Israel were rejected and canceled.

About 40,000 tourists have been stuck in the country, the Israeli Ministry of Tourism reports. Among them, those who traveled to Tel -appeared for the annual pride parade, which was supposed to take place on Friday but was canceled after the hostilities broke out.

Some people consider the opportunity to leave Israel through land transitions to neighboring Jordan or Egypt and from there receive flights.

On Tuesday, Ms Kledon, along with a group of tourists from other countries, started a long way by car to the border with Egypt, where she plans to go to Charm el-Sheik and fly home.

She said that “too risky” to bring a mother who will remain with her brother in the neighboring city.

Speaking before the BBC on the eve of the journey, Mrs. Kledan said she was “horrified”.

“This is a very unstable, uncertain situation, not knowing what I’m safer to walk or I’m safer to stay? Not safe. You don’t know if the airport will open. Maybe days may be weeks.”

For some British travel on the ground is an impossibility.

Hannah Lyon-Singger, 43, arrived at Japha last Tuesday to take care of his father, after he was hospitalized during a vacation in Israel with his mother. A few hours after he was discharged after the heart procedure, “the war began,” she says.

A mother of three, from London, said the situation was tension on her elderly parents, especially when her father, who in the eighties, should be recovered.

“We hear the explosions outside,” she said the BBC. “Some of them sound really close. There have been straight hits over the last two nights. Over the last two nights.”

She added that the shelter “suffocates hot”.

Ms. Lyons-Singer desperately wants to return home to her children, and her father demands further treatment in the UK, but in her current state it is impossible to have a long journey to the border.

She urged the UK government to better support British citizens to return home.

“There are no recommendations other than a warning not to travel to Israel,” she says.

“They can offer safe trips to Egypt or assure us that after the opening of the airspace they will provide evacuation routes, but they did not offer us any help.

“My fear is that even when the air space opens, commercial flights may not start again again.”

79 -year -old Howard Jangerwood from London traveled to Israel earlier this month’s granddaughter. The Jewish Ceremony was abbreviated when the hostilities were dropped out and they were ordered to evacuate Kibbut near Jerusalem.

“We are exhausted,” he said. “We spend a lot of time – walking in my case – to get to the shelter. It takes part, especially when you hear about the victims.”

A retired judge who has several disadvantages, including mobility problems, is unable to try to cross the ground and do not consider it a safe option.

52-year-old Angus Eddie, who was stuck in Tel Aviv with his 22-year-old son Samuel, said the situation was “terrible” and “lack of care”, which demonstrated the UK government to the tilted British “shocking”.

Ever since their flight was canceled on Friday, they were in the shelter and left the shelters. On Monday, after they felt a large -scale explosion from the ISROTEL gymnasium, opposite the stock exchange Tel -Vaviv, the hotel announced that they were closing and said they should look for a shelter further.

“It seems that the situation is becoming more and more complicated,” he said.

Mr -n Eddie added that they called the British Consulate every day, who advised them to register with email messages.

“We even went to the embassy personally (on Monday), and they didn’t even talk to us. It’s just a shocking lack of care.”

A Foreign Service (FCDO) advised all trips to Israel Because of the “quick situation that causes considerable risks”, which has “potential for further, fast and rapid swelling”.

Official tips too advises against all trips to Iran.

Tourists from other countries are also stranded. On Sunday, the BBC talked to the Jain family from the United States who were among those who crashed when and how to try to leave.

Poland said that about 200 of its citizens will begin to evacuate in the coming days.

On Monday, Deputy Foreign Minister Henryk Mosk-Dandy stated that they were “stuck as tourists” who will leave the capital of Jordan Oman and then fly to Warsaw.

Meanwhile, the German Foreign Ministry called on citizens both in Iran and Israel to enter their contact data on the ambulance system. About 4000 did it in Israel and about 1000 in Iran. A press secretary said there were no current evacuation plans from any country.

But other countries evacuated their citizens – on Tuesday morning, the Minister of Defense confirmed to Prague in Prague, who transported 66 people from Israel.

About 100,000 Israeli estimates cannot return to Israel. Authorities have advised Israelis not to try to cross the land from the safety risks and wait for safer travel options.