{"id":29744,"date":"2024-08-05T09:55:52","date_gmt":"2024-08-05T06:55:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=29744"},"modified":"2024-08-05T09:55:52","modified_gmt":"2024-08-05T06:55:52","slug":"foreigners-to-leave-lebanon-as-war-fears-surge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/05\/foreigners-to-leave-lebanon-as-war-fears-surge\/","title":{"rendered":"Foreigners to Leave Lebanon as War Fears Surge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Sudan Events &#8211; Agencies\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Urgent calls for foreign nationals to leave Lebanon grew on Sunday with France warning of \u201ca highly volatile\u201d situation as Iran and its allies ready their response to high-profile killings blamed on Israel.<\/p>\n<p>Lebanon\u2019s Iran-backed Hezbollah movement, which has traded near-daily fire with Israeli forces since the Gaza war broke out in October, announced its fighters had fired a barrage of rockets at Israel\u2019s north overnight.<\/p>\n<p>The Israeli military said 30 projectiles were launched from Lebanon, with most of them intercepted.<\/p>\n<p>With Israel on high alert anticipating major military action from Tehran-aligned armed groups including Hezbollah and Hamas, medics and police said two people were killed on Sunday in a stabbing attack in a Tel Aviv suburb.<\/p>\n<p>The assailant, a Palestinian from the occupied West Bank, was \u201cneutralized\u201d by police and taken to hospital, where he was pronounced dead.<\/p>\n<p>Israeli forces meanwhile kept bombarding the Gaza Strip, witnesses and officials in the besieged territory said, with no end in sight to the nearly 10-month war triggered by the Palestinian militant group\u2019s October 7 attack on southern Israel.<\/p>\n<p>France, Canada and Jordan were among the latest governments to issue calls for their citizens to leave Lebanon.<\/p>\n<p>The United States and Britain have issued similar warnings.<\/p>\n<p>Several Western airlines have suspended flights to the region.<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday Qatar Airways said that \u201cin light of recent developments in Lebanon,\u201d the Doha-Beirut route \u201cwill operate exclusively during daylight hours\u201d at least until Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sudan Events &#8211; Agencies\u00a0 Urgent calls for foreign nationals to leave Lebanon grew on Sunday with France warning of \u201ca highly volatile\u201d situation as Iran and its allies ready their response to high-profile killings blamed on Israel. Lebanon\u2019s Iran-backed Hezbollah movement, which has traded near-daily fire with Israeli forces since the Gaza war broke out &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":29745,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29744"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29744\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29746,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29744\/revisions\/29746"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}