{"id":491371,"date":"2023-10-13T10:04:21","date_gmt":"2023-10-13T04:34:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/?p=491371"},"modified":"2023-10-13T10:04:26","modified_gmt":"2023-10-13T04:34:26","slug":"operation-ajay-israel-indians-delhi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/india-news\/operation-ajay-israel-indians-delhi\/","title":{"rendered":"Operation Ajay: 1st flight carrying 212 stranded Indians from Israel lands in Delhi"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Early on Friday morning, the first flight of relief effort Operation Ajay, which was bringing 212 Indians who were stranded in Israel, touched down at the Delhi airport. Thursday night, the plane took off from Ben Gurion airport.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The flights were scheduled to assist individuals who were stranded in Israel due to the Israel-Hamas conflict, as Air India promptly halted its operations on October 7, the day hostilities broke out, and they have remained suspended until this day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to those with knowledge of the proceedings, the first round of flights will allow Indians who choose to leave Israel return home by operating till October 18.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WATCH?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#WATCH<\/a> | First flight carrying 212 Indian nationals from Israel, lands at Delhi airport; received by Union Minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/uB71qIBmJy\">pic.twitter.com\/uB71qIBmJy<\/a><\/p>&mdash; ANI (@ANI) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ANI\/status\/1712632783309607293?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 13, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Union minister Rajeev Chandrashekhar welcomed the Israeli returnees at the Indira Gandhi International Airport, according to a video posted on social media platform X.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The government received praise by a father whose daughter is studying in Israel for arranging her return. I have complete faith in Prime Minister Modi and my External Affairs Minister. In Israel, my daughter is finishing up her doctorate. She is secure and powerful. This is the first batch she&#8217;s bringing back. We&#8217;ve been communicating. When things return to normal and she goes back to school once more, a resident from &nbsp;Etah, Uttar Pradesh said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to Union Minister Chandrashekhar, no Indian will be left behind by the government. The minister said, no Indian will ever be left behind by our government. Our prime minister and our government are committed to keeping them safe and getting them back home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said, we are thankful to EAM Dr. S. Jaishankar, the External Affairs Ministry team, and the flight crew of this Air India flight for making this possible and for returning our children home safely and soundly to be with their loved ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Israel is home to some 18,000 Indians, including students, according to a ministry of external affairs report this week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to Indian authorities, the Israeli government has promised to use all of its resources to support the authorities during Operation Ajay.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, to keep an eye on the situation in Israel and Palestine, the ministry of external affairs has established a 24-hour control room in the nation&#8217;s capital. The control room&#8217;s email address is situationroom@mea.gov.in, and its phone numbers are 1800118797 (toll free), +91-11 23012113, +91-11-23014104, +91-11-23017905, and +919968291988.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Union minister Rajeev Chandrashekhar welcomed the Israeli returnees at the Indira Gandhi International Airport, according to a video posted on social media platform X.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":491373,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1497,125714],"tags":[160940,37,42,160900,132,160941],"yst_prominent_words":[6604,4794,6461,8917,5985,5975,27908,3885,23358,3887,4532,10915,3688,12622,12612,4396,12742,10196],"ppma_author":[140543],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/d2r2ijn7njrktv.cloudfront.net\/apnlive\/uploads\/2023\/10\/13100133\/ezgif-4-b8d632236a-2.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"authors":[{"term_id":140543,"user_id":4,"is_guest":0,"slug":"apnnewsdesk","display_name":"APN Live","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/478eacb893eda88aa6ed8d99b005bf58?s=96&r=g"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491371"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=491371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491371\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/491373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=491371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=491371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=491371"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=491371"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=491371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- html is corrupted -->