All diplomats, however, will reportedly remain on active duty and continue to offer consular services.
The UK’s foreign minister James Cleverly said this week that he was working to ensure flights remained available to Britons looking to leave Israel.
“We are temporarily drawing down dependants of staff at our embassy in Tel Aviv and our consulate in Jerusalem as a precautionary measure,” it added. It declined today to say if it was organising repatriation flights for British nationals stuck in Israel who want to return home – as many other countries have done.
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