Mateusz Morawiecki made the declaration in a Facebook appearance on Monday night, Polish state news agency PAP reported.
Referring to Israel’s developing war with the Palestinian organisation Hamas, the prime minister said that Poland's military aircraft had evacuated the first groups of Polish tourists on Sunday night.
He added: “We are not leaving our citizens alone. We are always with them.”
Morawiecki said that the Gaza Strip, which has been the target of Israel’s retaliatory air strikes, housed some 2 million Muslim residents.
The Polish prime minister added that Israel’s attack could cause “another big wave of illegal migration” to Europe.
He urged Poles to vote in a referendum on issues including illegal migration, which is scheduled for October 15, together with parliamentary elections, the PAP news agency reported.
Earlier on Monday, Poland’s Foreign Minister Zbigniew Rau told reporters that the government was stepping up efforts to fly all Poles out of war-hit Israel and that some 1,000 Polish citizens awaited evacuation, the PAP news agency reported.
Meanwhile, Rau was set to join fellow European Union ministers for a meeting on the situation in Israel and the region, scheduled for Tuesday.
The EU's top diplomats are expected to consider the responses and next steps for the bloc, including reviewing aspects of development aid, the Reuters news agency reported.
Additionally, a spokesman for the EU’s executive Commission said: "The Commission is currently assessing how the recent tragic events might affect our current and our future development assistance. EU funding supports most essential services for the Palestinian population and contributes direct financing also to the Palestinian authority.”
The EU’s top diplomats will meet in Muscat, Oman, where they were already due to meet with counterparts from countries of the Persian Gulf Cooperation Council, public broadcaster Polish Radio’s IAR news agency reported.
Israel said it had secured the border with Gaza after Hamas fighters broke through it in multiple places on Saturday, starting the war, British broadcaster BBC reported on Tuesday morning.
So far, more than 900 people have died in Israel since Saturday’s attack, including 260 people shot dead by Hamas gunmen at a music festival, according to news outlets.
The bodies of 1,500 militants have also been found, according to the Israeli army.
Meanwhile, Israel was continuing its air strikes on the Gaza Strip, hitting 200 targets overnight into Tuesday, the BBC reported.
The death toll from Israeli attacks had approached 690, the Palestinian authorities said.
(pm/gs)
Source: IAR, PAP, Reuters, BBC