The group had been sheltering in a hotel in Jerusalem following the attack by Hamas on the region over the weekend.
A group of British tourists who were stranded in Israel with their church have returned to the UK after a 24-hour journey which saw them cross the border to Jordan in a bus.
Father Nenad Popovic, 44, who organised the trip, said most of their wider group of 50 were able to fly home from the Israeli capital Tel Aviv but, after a flight was cancelled on Wednesday, 18 of them took a coach from Jerusalem to the border with Jordan.They travelled east through the West Bank to the Jordanian border, and while the mood on the bus was “tense” the road was safe and they witnessed no hostilities, Fr Popovic said.
After crossing the border the group took taxis to Jordan’s Amman Civil Airport, where they waited for 10 hours for a flight to Antalya, Turkey, before flying to London Stansted on Thursday . The group, which included about 30 Britons and three children, had been in a hotel in Bethlehem when Hamas attacked the region on Saturday.
“It’s not my first war, I had problems in Serbia in 1999, but for a lot of the group it was their first time to be in the war, to hear the horns and sirens, to hear the bombs,” he said.Fr Popovic said he was “annoyed” the church group did not receive assistance to return home from the UK or Serbian governments.
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