Crown Iris due back Saturday with 1,500 people fleeing Israel

The cruise ship ‘Crown Iris’, which is participating in the Israeli “Safe Return” operation, returns to Limassol port on Saturday carrying mainly foreign nationals leaving Israel. 

The cruise ship, which stopped its scheduled season cruises to assist in the effort to repatriate Israelis and evacuate foreign nationals from the war-torn region, had set sail on Thursday afternoon from Limassol, transporting around 1,600 Israelis to the port of Haifa.

CNA has learned that on Saturday morning...