Washington directs a request to the Americans in Lebanon news
The United States once again warned its citizens against traveling to or staying in Lebanon, and ordered the families of its embassy employees in Beirut to leave, in light of the escalation and continuing Israeli bombing.
The US State Department announced, in a statement issued on Sunday, that the warning against traveling to Lebanon is still at level four – which means the highest level of warning – due to the volatile security conditions and the difficult-to-predict situation in this country.
The US State Department issued instructions to the families of US Embassy employees in Beirut, employees, and those on non-urgent missions to leave the country.
The warning came a day after the assassination of Secretary-General LHezbollah Lebanese Hassan Nasrallah In an Israeli raid on Friday evening, it also resulted in the killing of prominent leaders in the party and a commander in… Iranian Revolutionary Guard.
The department's statement warned American citizens against traveling to Lebanon due to what it said were “the risks of terrorism, civil disobedience, armed conflicts, the risks of crimes, kidnapping, unexploded mines and armed conflicts.”
The statement called on American citizens, who chose to remain in Lebanon, to be prepared to go to shelters if conditions deteriorate further.
The State Department also called on American nationals in southern Lebanon, near the Syrian border, and in the vicinity of refugee camps to leave those areas immediately, and warned that the Washington embassy in Beirut may not be able to evacuate its citizens who prefer to remain in Lebanon.
In late July, the US Embassy in Beirut, in a statement on its website, reminded its citizens to review the current travel warning, which strongly urges American citizens to reconsider traveling to Lebanon, and advises them to register in a special program to receive alerts and facilitate locating them in the event of an emergency. .
Since September 23, the Israeli army has launched the most violent and widespread attack on Lebanon since the beginning of the confrontations with Hezbollah about a year ago. As of yesterday evening, Saturday, it resulted in the killing of 816 people, including children and women, and the wounding of 2,507 others, according to the Lebanese authorities, amid fears. From the expansion of the confrontation into a regional war.