Family stranded in Israel face up to 3,700-mile journey through three countries to get home to UK
A British family trapped in Israel due to a concentrated conflict with Iran says that if the United Kingdom government continues to take action, they have faced a challenging, expensive and potentially dangerous journey.
51 -year -old lawyer Lisa Baker, after the cancellation of flight houses on Sunday, 15 -year -old daughter Bella and 78 -year -old mother Phyllis Phillips stuck.
The Israeli government closed the airspace until June 23, after the rise in the clash with Iran, who saw that both countries started deadly air strikes against each other.
On Monday morning, three people in Haifa were among the eight people killed by Iranian ballistic missiles in a dawn attack.
Ms. Baker and her family stay in a hotel with access to a safe room they are looking for when the sirens warn them about a possible air strike. But they are eager to return to England.
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However, despite registering their situation to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Prime Minister Sir Keir says that they receive little help to find a safe transition house, as requested by Starmer.
Latest government recommendation The three international land border transitions to Jordan and Egypt for British citizens can only be closed without notification ”.
As a result, Mrs. Baker Independent Many of them have discovered a series of routes to go home with two or three flights.
A route is to travel to Amman in Jordan for more than three hours and then fly to London Stanstil, Saudi Arabia with Jeddah and Riyadh and Istanbul in Türkiye.
This journey is more than 3,700 miles, far above Haifa 2,185 miles from London.
There are routes with fewer stops, but the group ticket costs rose up to £ 6,000, Baker said, Baker said that the journeys contained layers overnight at the airports like Beirut in Lebanon.
Baker said: “The nearest airport is not a direct flight in Jordan, but there is no direct flight, but instead there are flights to England with one, two or three stops and cost £ 6,000 for all of us.
“Then every time we enter the flight, it probably disappears due to demand.
“Journeys also include border crossings that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs say it can be closed without notification, and there are risky flights to stop at an airport we go.
“The British government needs to take action to take the British citizens home safely. It may mean that we use the border crossing to a country without a safe transition guarantee, it may mean that there is a risk of potential danger.”
Baker questioned why Israel could not multiply the action of flying back to the house despite the closure of the British government’s airspace.
Polish also announced that the Czech Republic and Slovak governments were released from the region, while three citizens were released on the bus convoy.
Baker said that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs should consider providing a boat service to reach British citizens in Haifa to reach Cyprus.
“This is a safe passage because it is a safe country, and it is a way that does not risk being in other countries that can be potentially dangerous to be in it,” he said.
“Here we are calm, not in the bomb shelters, we are in safe rooms,” he added. “Scary, but here is a warning system and then with sirens. There are attacks in Haifa, we know, and damage to buildings where people are in safe rooms. Unfortunately, there was a loss of life.
“We want to go home.”
Bella, Leeds at the school of GCSE Fake exams missing, Mrs. Baker, the lawyer had to re -assign the workload, he said.
On Monday, Foreign Minister David Lammy said that the welfare of the British citizens in Israel was the “first priority” of the government. In addition to sending a team to Egypt to help citizens, Border Crossing said that it was published on the website of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
“British citizens in the region should closely monitor our travel advice for more update.” He told Commons.
British citizens in Israel can record their existence with the British government Gov.uk web page.
