{"id":505001,"date":"2026-02-28T09:59:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T09:59:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/505001\/"},"modified":"2026-02-28T09:59:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T09:59:07","slug":"canada-tells-staff-leave-tel-aviv-amid-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/505001\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada tells staff leave Tel Aviv amid attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">MUMBAI, India \u2013 Canada is asking some of its staff in Tel Aviv to relocate as Israel and the United States <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ctvnews.ca\/world\/article\/us-and-israel-launch-attack-on-iran-trump-says-major-combat-operations-have-begun\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.ctvnews.ca\/world\/article\/us-and-israel-launch-attack-on-iran-trump-says-major-combat-operations-have-begun\/\">launched strikes on Iran<\/a> early Saturday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cWe have asked non-essential staff to relocate from Tel Aviv because of the heightened security situation,\u201d said Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand, who made the comments from Mumbai, India, just before news broke that Israel launched what they call a \u201cpreemptive\u201d attack on Iran. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">At the time, Anand said that advice is not in place for diplomats elsewhere in the Middle East, though that could change.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Hours before the first strikes were reported in the Irani capital of Tehran, Anand shared a post on social media suggested Canadians in the Middle East should \u201cremain vigilant, monitor local and international media, and follow the instructions of local authorities, including any orders to shelter in place.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cCanadians in Israel, Lebanon and Palestine should consider leaving while commercial options remain available,\u201d Anand wrote, adding that the federal government\u2019s ability to \u201cprovide consular services to Canadians during an active conflict is likely to be limited\u201d and that Canadians should come up with contingency plans that don\u2019t rely on government aid. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Anand says any Canadians in Iran \u201cshould leave now, if they can do so safely,\u201d and that Canada no longer has a diplomatic presence in the country, making consular assistance for anyone who needs it even more challenging. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The U.S. government reportedly advised any of its diplomatic staff in Israel who want to leave to do so now. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Anand told reporters Saturday she last spoke with U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio about Iran on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference earlier this month, but did not elaborate on the conversation. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MUMBAI, India \u2013 Canada is asking some of its staff in Tel Aviv to relocate as Israel and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":505002,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[49,48,47,44],"class_list":{"0":"post-505001","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-canada","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-national","11":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=505001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505001\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/505002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=505001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=505001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=505001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}