They helped us in the knowledge that they were soon going to be evacuated themselves.
On June 1st, the day of Mr Husseini's funeral, the omnipresent Israeli police sensibly evacuated themselves from East Jerusalem as tens of thousands of Palestinians saw him off with high honour to his tomb on Haram es Sharif, facing the Dome of the Rock.
Tens of thousands of Vietnamese evacuated themselves by sea or air.
Although Schueller broke with Deloncle later in the war, he maintained a pro-German stance to the end, providing some Nazis with a L'Or? van "to evacuate both themselves and their loot" when the Americans' arrival forced them to flee in 1944.
The Taliban are good shots, conceal themselves well and evacuate their casualties efficiently.Even so, the Royal Marines at Kajaki are now fighting on highly favourable tactical terms.
Without helicopters, it is not clear whether Afghan troops can keep themselves fed and equipped, evacuate their wounded or rotate troops.
Kurdish peshmerga fighters held off the militants long enough to evacuate the city before the peshmerga themselves also retreated.
In a sign that the threat to Bangkok had outstripped officials' expectations, some evacuation sites were themselves being evacuated or prepared to evacuate as the Chao Phraya River threatened to top its banks.
As the call went to staff to "evacuate the prison", the rioters were barricading themselves inside the chapel.
Others begged for buses to help evacuate their villages, were told to fend for themselves.
