The German airline Lufthansa will conduct “special flights” tomorrow Thursday and the day after Friday to and from Israel to repatriate German citizens, sources close to the German Foreign Ministry told AFP on Tuesday.

German citizens who wish to leave Israeli territory in this way must register their details on the Foreign Ministry’s digital platform dedicated to crisis management, the sources said.

Always according to the same AFP sources, “about 4,500” German citizens had been registered on the list until yesterday.

The flights will be charters and will be made at the “request of the ministry”, as Lufthansa has suspended its regular commercial flights to and from Tel Aviv until further notice.

German authorities, who generally avoid raising issues of citizens’ private lives, have so far not announced how many German citizens have died since Saturday, when Hamas launched its unprecedented attack on Israeli territory.

But over the weekend, German diplomacy said that German citizens, some of whom also hold Israeli citizenship, were among the hostages taken by militants of the Palestinian Islamist movement, without specifying their number.

The mother of a 22-year-old German-Israeli woman missing in Israel has announced that she has received information that she is alive and in the Gaza Strip.

Previously – according to information not confirmed by official sources – it was reported that the Berlin student had been killed in the Hamas attack.

Dozens of foreigners were killed, wounded or kidnapped in this attack in Israel, the deadliest by a state.