Today, Wednesday, Israel asked its citizens to leave Turkey as soon as possible after angry demonstrations in front of the Israeli embassy in Ankara following the Baptist Hospital massacre yesterday. It also evacuated the employees of its embassies in Morocco and Egypt.

The Israeli Consulate in Ankara raised the security alert for Israelis in Turkey to the highest level.

While the Israeli National Security Council justified the request to leave with “increasing terrorist threats against Israelis abroad,” warning Israelis against traveling to Turkey.

Demonstrations took place in about 12 Turkish cities yesterday, Tuesday, especially in front of the Israeli embassy in Ankara, denouncing Israel's bombing of the Baptist Hospital, which resulted in the death of at least 500 Palestinians, most of whom were women and children who took refuge in the hospital because they believed it was safe.

Evacuation of embassies

The Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth reported that the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs evacuated the employees of its embassies in Cairo and Rabat, after demonstrations condemning the bombing of Baptist Hospital.

Thousands of Egyptians demonstrated today in a number of governorates, including Minya in the south, Dakahlia, and Menoufia in the Nile Delta, denouncing the ongoing Israeli aggression against Gaza since October 7, in the wake of Operation “Al-Aqsa Flood” launched by the Palestinian resistance.

For its part, Morocco denounced - in a statement by its Foreign Ministry - the Israeli bombing of the Baptist Hospital in the Gaza Strip, and thousands demonstrated in Rabat last Sunday in support of the besieged Gaza Strip and to denounce normalization with the Israeli occupation.