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German Chancellor Olaf Scholz was evacuated from his plane shortly before takeoff in Israel amid an airstrike alert late on Tuesday, a Reuters correspondent accompanying the chancellor said.
Video recorded by Reuters shows Scholz and his staff quickly getting into a car on the tarmac at Ben Gurion Airport in Tel Aviv after getting off the plane.
Scholz arrived in Israel on Tuesday and met with Israeli President Isaac Herzog and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to express Germany's solidarity with Israel. Scholz is set to travel to Egypt on Wednesday to meet with President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi.