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France urges its citizens to leave Lebanon "immediately"

2024-08-04 12:07:00, Kosova & Bota CNA
France urges its citizens to leave Lebanon "immediately"
Beirut, Lebanon

France called on its citizens in Lebanon on Sunday to leave the Middle Eastern country "as soon as possible", amid fears of an all-out war between Israel and Hezbollah.

France's Foreign Ministry also reiterated its call for French citizens not to travel to Lebanon.

Paris followed in the footsteps of Washington and London, which on Saturday asked their citizens to leave Lebanon.

France estimates that around 23,000 of its citizens live in Lebanon, while last month around 10,000 French citizens visited the Middle Eastern country.

Meanwhile, Sweden announced that it has closed its embassy in Beirut and called on its citizens to leave the country.

Tensions in the region are high following the killing of Ismail Haniyeh, the political leader of Hamas - the US and EU-designated terrorist group - and a senior commander of the Lebanese group, Hezbollah, last week.

Haniyeh's death on Iranian soil and Israeli attacks on Tehran-backed groups that engage in attacks against Israel have fueled fears of an outright war between Iran and Israel and a wider conflict in the East. medium.

Haniyeh was killed on the morning of July 31 in an affluent neighborhood in Tehran, shortly after attending the inauguration ceremony of Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian in Parliament.

Iran and Hamas have accused Israel of killing Haniyeh and vowed revenge. Israel has not taken responsibility for his murder, but neither has it denied it./ REL 





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