The foreign minister, Penny Wong, has urged Australians who want to leave Israel to act immediately, after the first of four Australian-government-backed repatriation flights landed in London on Satuday.
Penny Wong said on Saturday that the Qantas-operated flight from Tel Aviv landed at Heathrow airport earlier on Saturday carrying 238 people. Overall, about 825 Australians had departed Israel and the occupied territories, she said.