While other EU countries issued travel advisories against visiting Israel, Poland is the first to evacuate its citizens. They will travel by bus to Jordan and then fly to Warsaw. Israeli airspace remains closed.
Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, said on Friday that “the Zionist regime has prepared a bitter and painful fate for itself.” After Iran’s retaliatory strikes, Israel’s defense minister, Israel Katz, warned that “Tehran will burn” if it continues its attacks.
European leaders called for “restraint” and diplomatic resolution to the conflict, but Israel’s ambassador to the U.S. on Sunday pushed back against calls for peace, saying: “The objective is not to contain the war. The objective is to win the war.”