{"id":34361,"date":"2024-08-04T14:44:21","date_gmt":"2024-08-04T18:44:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/world-governments-urge-citizens-to-leave-lebanon-as-fears-of-israel-hezbollah-war-grow\/04\/08\/2024\/"},"modified":"2024-08-04T14:44:21","modified_gmt":"2024-08-04T18:44:21","slug":"world-governments-urge-citizens-to-leave-lebanon-as-fears-of-israel-hezbollah-war-grow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/world-governments-urge-citizens-to-leave-lebanon-as-fears-of-israel-hezbollah-war-grow\/04\/08\/2024\/","title":{"rendered":"World governments urge citizens to leave Lebanon as fears of Israel-Hezbollah war grow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<h3>The News<\/h3>\n<p>The US, the UK, Australia, Sweden, France, Italy, Canada, South Korea, Saudi Arabia, and Jordan have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/aug\/03\/uk-prepares-to-evacuate-civilians-from-lebanon-as-middle-east-conflict-widens\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:issued warnings;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">issued warnings<\/a> to citizens to leave Lebanon; the UK has also deployed experts and military personnel to assist with a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/aug\/03\/uk-prepares-to-evacuate-civilians-from-lebanon-as-middle-east-conflict-widens\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:potential evacuation;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">potential evacuation<\/a> should a war between Israel and the militant group Hezbollah break out there.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2024\/8\/4\/us-uk-and-france-ask-their-citizens-to-leave-lebanon-as-war-fears-loom\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Several airlines have already canceled flights;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Several airlines have already canceled flights<\/a> to and from Beirut, Lebanon\u2019s only commercial airport, complicating any exit strategies.<\/p>\n<p>While many <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chathamhouse.org\/2024\/07\/israels-strikes-iran-and-lebanon-dont-hurt-hamas-and-hezbollah-much\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:experts agree a war;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">experts agree a war<\/a> would be in no one\u2019s favor, tensions in the region reached a new high after Israel struck Beirut last week, killing a top Hezbollah leader it blamed for a previous deadly strike on the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights.<\/p>\n<p>Hamas\u2019 top political leader, Ismail Haniyeh, was also killed in a strike in Tehran; Israel did not claim responsibility for the latter strike.<\/p>\n<p>Iran vowed \u201csevere\u201d retaliation against Israel after the Tehran strike, and Western officials believe that it could use Hezbollah \u2014 one of several military proxies Iran has in the region \u2014 in any counterattack.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/world-governments-urge-citizens-leave-165039203.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The News The US, the UK, Australia, Sweden, France, Italy, Canada, South Korea, Saudi Arabia, and Jordan have issued warnings to citizens<br \/><button class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/world-governments-urge-citizens-to-leave-lebanon-as-fears-of-israel-hezbollah-war-grow\/04\/08\/2024\/\">Read More &rsaquo;<\/a><\/button><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34363,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34361"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34361\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}