The Tribune

By LETRE SWEETING

Tribune Staff Reporter

lsweeting@tribunemedia.net

HOWARD Evans, the last Bahamian who contacted the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for help in leaving Israel, has been repatriated, the ministry said yesterday.

Mr Evans, who visited Israel on a birthday trip to get closer to God, left from Tel Aviv via Athens.

According to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Canadian government provided space for him on a repatriation flight.

Mr Evans was one of three Bahamians who contacted the ministry for help in leaving Israel.

The Tribune reported that Dion Bowe hired private contractors to get him and his wife from a hotel in Jerusalem to the airport, where they left on a plane on October 7 as rockets flew overhead.

The other Bahamian, basketball player Zane Knowles, left Israel on Sunday for Bulgaria.

“The ministry advises against all travel to Israel and the Occupied Palestinian territories,” the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said. “The ministry further advises against all travel to other parts of the region.

“Do not under any circumstances travel to Gaza; Sheba’s Farms and Ghajjar; any location within 500m of the border with Lebanon east of Metula, including the northern edge of the town and within 500m of the border with Syria; areas north of and including Jenin city, Burqin and Arranah in the north of the West Bank; the city of Nablus, Joseph’s Tomb, and the Balata and New Askar refugee camps near Nablus and the village of Huwara, south of Nablus.”