Czech, Slovak planes evacuate 139 people from Israel

The mother of one of the victims of an Iranian missile attack which destroyed a three-storey building in the northern Arab-Israeli city of Tamra, is comforted during a funeral in the northern Arab-Israeli city of Tamra, on June 17, 2025. [AFP]

The Czech Republic and Slovakia have taken 139 people home on government planes from Israel because it conflicted with Iran, authorities said on Tuesday.

A Czech government plane carrying 66 people landed in Prague on Tuesday morning, a day after a Slovak plane had taken 73 evacuees to Bratislava from Amman.