(JTA) — Israel said it has evacuated more than 200 people from a northern province of Ethiopia where a militia is fighting government forces. That group included both Israeli citizens and those eligible to immigrate to the country. Around 150,000 Ethiopian Jews live in Israel, many involved in or descendants of those airlifted from Ethiopia in the 1980s and ‘90s. “The State of Israel looks after its citizens wherever they are,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a statement. “In recent days, Israeli citizens and people eligible for aliyah [immigration] from Ethiopia became in distress in areas of combat.

Source: Ethiopian News August 11, 2023 21:00 UTC