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(NewsNation) — The United States is organizing evacuations of American citizens retired of Israel, U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee announced Wednesday, arsenic the threat of imaginable subject action against Israel intensifies.
In a social media post, Huckabee said the embassy is coordinating “evacuation flights and cruise vessel departures” for U.S. citizens who are "wanting to leave" the country.
He urged Americans to registry done the Smart Traveler Enrollment Program to beryllium eligible.
Until now, the U.S. had refrained from arranging evacuations for American citizens portion Israel and Iran exchanged escalating attacks.
Just hours earlier Huckabee’s announcement, the U.S. Embassy successful Jerusalem had stated it had “no announcement astir assisting backstage U.S. citizens to depart astatine this time."
This comes aft the Department of State updated question advisories for Israel, the West Bank and Gaza to a “do not travel” presumption aft authorizing the voluntary departure of household members and nonemergency authorities employees successful those areas.
The advisory is owed to the “volatile and unpredictable information concern successful the region.”
The evacuation readying follows signals from President Donald Trump and the White House that the U.S. is considering subject involution targeting Iranian atomic facilities buried heavy underground.
