"Travel to Israel and East Jerusalem is urgently discouraged," the ministry said in an advisory on its website. The advice had previously applied only to certain parts of Israel but now takes in the whole country, a ministry source confirmed. Britain also said it had moved some of diplomatic staff and their dependants from Tel Aviv to another location in the country. The German foreign ministry source told AFP its embassy in Tel Aviv remained "fully operational". Lufthansa announced Saturday it has cancelled it flights to and from Tel Aviv, Beirut, Amman, Erbil and Tehran until March 7, as the US and Israel launched air strikes on Iran, which retaliated with missile launches.

Source: The Local February 28, 2026 19:23 UTC