Baerbock contacted Gylfadóttir for transporting schoolchildren from Israel

The German foreign minister yesterday rejected criticisms that the evacuation of German citizens from Israel was delayed and said that emergency cases had been dealt with, for example, by contacting the Icelandic government for German school children.

German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock was on the German national television last night and was asked about her criticism of the failure to arrange a special flight to evacuate German citizens from Israel after the attacks of the terrorist group Hamas earlier yesterday, Thursday.

“There are always some single cases where it can be said that things have not gone well,” Baer-bock told the Maybrit Illner talk show. “But I also know what the German embassy has been doing on the ground since the first day.”

Thus she had been in contact with Þórdís Kolbrún Reykfjörð Gísladóttir, Iceland’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, so that a few schoolchildren could fly out of the country with a stopover in Iceland. This was reported on Der Spiegel website.

126 Icelanders flew home by plane, which left Amman, Jordan, on October 9 and landed in Keflavík on the morning of the 10th. In addition, as stated in a report on mbl.is, five Faroese, four Norwegians and a group of twelve people from Germany were on board.