Some Israelis abroad try to head home, to join reservists or just to help

Hundreds of people waited hours to board emergency flights out of Greece (Thanassis Stavrakis/AP)

Among Israeli citizens living abroad are some who have decided not to run from the war at home but towards it, scrambling to airports and joining online chat groups for help, desperate to make their way to the country after Hamas militants attacked.

From Athens to New York, there are some Israelis wanting to serve, whether that means fighting in a military reserve unit or volunteering to shuttle supplies to those in need, even as the war has already claimed at least 1,800 lives and shows no signs of abating.