At an evening press conference on 2 March, the Polish foreign ministry said it had **no reports of citizens injured** in the Middle-East hostilities. Spokesman Maciej Wewiór detailed that four organised tour groups—about 200 travellers—had already crossed from Israel into Egypt, while others were boarding ferries and charter buses out of Jordan. A dedicated inter-ministerial crisis cell, set up over the weekend, is liaising with tour operators, insurers and EU counterparts to share passenger manifests and allocate consular escorts along evacuation corridors. The United Arab Emirates has pledged temporary accommodation for up to 10,000 Poles awaiting flights, easing pressure on consular resources. The ministry repeated its plea for travel agencies to cancel new departures to the region and warned against social-media scams in which fraudsters pose as embassy staff and demand payment for “priority seats.” Businesses were reminded that they must submit details of any duty-travel to high-risk destinations through the government’s BiznesAlert portal introduced last year. For mobility teams, the update signals that land and sea routes remain viable, but require close coordination with consulates. Companies should map over-the-road evacuation options in contingency plans and verify that employees have multiple entry visas for transit countries such as Egypt and Cyprus, which are processing emergency arrivals. With Poland’s crisis team now fully operational, corporate security managers should plug into the ministry’s daily situation reports—available in Polish and English—to align internal communication with official guidance and avoid contradictory instructions to staff.
Source: Polskie Radio (English Section)
