Countries including Spain, France, the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, Sweden and Jordan see an imminent risk of attacks. Several airlines have suspended or postponed flights to and from Lebanon due to escalating tensions in the Middle East.
Spain, France, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, Sweden And Jordanhave asked their citizens in Lebanon, among others, to do this leave the country “as soon as possible” before the risk of escalation in the Middle Eastin anticipation of a possible imminent attack by Iran and the Lebanese Shiite group Hezbollah on Israel.
The Embassy of Spain in Beirut this Sunday through his surrender “using existing commercial means.”
The French Foreign Ministry asked its citizens on Sunday to “make arrangements to leave Lebanon as soon as possible” because the situation is “very unstable”.
In a similar vein, the British government yesterday urged its nationals still in Lebanon to leave now, while there are commercial opportunities to do so, as the security situation could “rapidly deteriorate”.
In the last days, Several airlines have suspended or postponed their flights to and from Lebanon as tensions escalated following Israeli bombings in Beirut that killed Hezbollah’s top military commander, Fuad Shukr, and the Israeli-attributed assassination in Tehran of Hamas political head Ismail Haniyeh.
Other Western countries such as Canada, Australia and Sweden (which closed its embassy in Beirut) also asked their citizens to evacuate Lebanon, a country that has only one airport for commercial flights, that of the capital, and which borders Israel and Syria.
Jordan is the only Arab country to have asked its citizens to “leave Lebanese territory as soon as possible,” while warning that an escalation would have serious consequences for its own country, which is in the firing line between Israel and Iran.
Source: EITB
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