{"id":1241,"date":"2023-10-21T11:38:19","date_gmt":"2023-10-21T11:38:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/diplomatique.ma\/en\/?p=1241"},"modified":"2023-10-22T04:41:50","modified_gmt":"2023-10-22T04:41:50","slug":"russia-foreign-ministry-warns-against-travelling-to-palestine-israel-lebanon-jordan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diplomatique.ma\/en\/russia-foreign-ministry-warns-against-travelling-to-palestine-israel-lebanon-jordan\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia Foreign Ministry warns against travelling to Palestine, Israel, Lebanon, Jordan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Russian Foreign Ministry on Friday advised against travelling to Israel, Lebanon and Jordan, stating: \u201cThe situation in the Middle East is heating up,\u201d amid regional tensions since 7 October.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Ministry of Foreign Affairs noted that it is working closely with the Egyptian and Israeli authorities so that the Russians in the Gaza Strip can leave.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It warned: \u201cWe strongly recommend that\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.themoscowtimes.com\/2023\/10\/20\/russia-advises-against-travel-to-israel-and-lebanon-a82841\">Russian citizens refrain from travelling<\/a>\u00a0to the region, especially to Israel, Lebanon, Jordan and the Palestinian territories.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A large number of Russians reside in Israel and about 6,000 Russians have travelled from Tel Aviv to Russia since 9 October, according to the same source.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"ywSdFjotej\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/diplomatique.ma\/en\/2023\/10\/20\/egypt-peace-summit-may-struggle-to-foster-unity-on-gaza-conflict\/\">Egypt Peace Summit may struggle to foster unity on Gaza conflict<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;Egypt Peace Summit may struggle to foster unity on Gaza conflict&#8221; &#8212; diplomatic\" src=\"https:\/\/diplomatique.ma\/en\/2023\/10\/20\/egypt-peace-summit-may-struggle-to-foster-unity-on-gaza-conflict\/embed\/#?secret=Vb73g4R9Xj#?secret=ywSdFjotej\" data-secret=\"ywSdFjotej\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Russian Ambassador to Israel Anatoly Viktorov told Russia\u2019s\u00a0<em>Izvestia<\/em>\u00a0newspaper on Friday that Moscow is in contact with representatives of the Hamas movement in order to remove the hostages from their location.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to the latest toll presented by the Russian authorities on Thursday, 19 Russian citizens were killed in Israel since the operation launched by the Hamas movement against Israel on 7 October, while seven are still missing. There are two Russians among the hostages in the Gaza Strip.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Russian President Vladimir Putin expressed his concern several times in recent days that the conflict between Israel and Hamas would turn into a \u201cregional war\u201d since the crisis resulted from the \u201cfailure\u201d of Washington\u2019s policy in the Middle East.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Russian Foreign Ministry on Friday advised against travelling to Israel, Lebanon and Jordan, stating: \u201cThe situation in the Middle East is heating up,\u201d amid regional tensions since 7 October. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs noted that it is working closely with the Egyptian and Israeli authorities so that the Russians in the Gaza Strip [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1242,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,41],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1241","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-europe-russia","8":"category-middle-east"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diplomatique.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diplomatique.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diplomatique.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diplomatique.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diplomatique.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1241"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/diplomatique.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1243,"href":"https:\/\/diplomatique.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1241\/revisions\/1243"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diplomatique.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diplomatique.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diplomatique.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diplomatique.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}