It is understood that the air force is assisting the Foreign Office due to the current limited availability of commercial flights.
An RAF flight left Israel on Friday night, as part of a UK Government effort to get British nationals out of the country amid the escalating conflict in the region.A Royal Air Force A400M made two flights from Tel Aviv to Cyprus, the first on Friday night and the second during the early hours of Saturday morning, according to FlightRadar24.
It comes as the UK Government had failed to organise repatriation flights from Israel due to problems obtaining insurance, an aviation source told the PA news agency. Other options include scheduled services to Heathrow and Luton airports by Israeli airline El Al and a repatriation flight to Heathrow for Australian nationals organised by the country's government and operated by Qantas.
When the FCDO announced on Thursday it would organise flights, it said the first one would operate that day and they will be available to "British nationals, including dual nationals, and dependants if travelling with a British national normally resident in the UK".
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