The Canadian ambassador to Israel said she and the embassy staff in Tel Aviv are "adapting" amid the missile warning sirens, and are continuing to focus on airlifting as many Canadians as possible out of the country in the coming days.

This comes as last weekend, Hamas militants attacked Israel and took hostages, leading to a series of retaliatory airstrikes in Gaza. Thousands have been killed, injured, and displaced as a result of the ongoing war. So far, the deaths of five Canadians have been confirmed, while three are still missing.

Canada began airlifting stranded citizens and their families as well as a small number of foreign nationals from Tel Aviv on Thursday, and military evacuation operations – using two CC-150 Polaris aircraft to transport passengers to Athens – continued over the weekend.

With two scheduled flights today, Sunday, the ambassador estimates that nearly 1,000 passengers will be airlifted from Ben Gurion International Airport by the end of the weekend. Canada's latest update on global affairs as of Sunday afternoon indicated that there are currently more than 6,800 Canadians registered in Israel with the Canadian government.

With eight flights now, Canadian Joint Operations Commander Vice Admiral Bob Auchterlonie did not mention how many additional evacuation shuttles the Canadian Armed Forces will provide, after the two scheduled for Monday.

While the majority of the passengers evacuated so far have been Canadian citizens, some Israelis, Americans, Australians, Greeks, and Brazilians were also among them, as federal officials indicated their willingness to assist allied countries in evacuation efforts if there is space on the flights.

Stadelbauer said that while hundreds of other citizens have expressed interest in leaving as the war between Israel and Hamas continues, the total number of Canadians to be evacuated remains a moving target.

When asked how the intense fighting is affecting Canada’s ability to continue its evacuation flights, the ambassador stated that she didn’t know.

Stadelbauer added, "It's impossible for me to say what Israel is doing with its airspace." "We will adapt to the current situation as it unfolds." "We are actually assessing that day by day, trying to see what happens. If the conflict continues in the south and in Gaza, we are fine where we are. And if the conflict in the south stirs up conflict in the north, the calculations become a bit different. But we have people here looking at it closely, and we have people in Ottawa looking at it closely... we need to be a bit light on our feet to make some of those decisions."