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The U.S. State Department has begun evacuating nonessential diplomats and their families from the U.S. embassy in Israel as hostilities between Israel and Iran intensify and President Donald Trump has warned of the possibility of getting directly involved in the conflict. Two U.S. officials say a government plane evacuated a number of diplomats and family members who had asked to leave the country Wednesday. U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee announced later on X that the embassy was making evacuation plans for private American citizens. Later, however, the State Department’s Bureau of Consular Affairs tweeted that “we have no announcement about assisting private U.S. citizens to depart at this time.”