Leave Lebanon, Filipinos urged

by Javier Joe Ismael - Agence France-Presse

Aug 18, 2024 12:17 am

(UPDATES) AMID fears of a widening war in the region, the Philippine Embassy in Beirut has urged all Filipinos in Lebanon — about 11,000 of them — to leave the country immediately while the airport is still operational.

The advisory came as Lebanon's health ministry said an Israeli air strike on Saturday in southern Lebanon killed 10 Syrians, as the Israeli military reported hitting weapons stores of the Iran-backed Hezbollah movement.

Smoke billows from the site of an Israeli strike that targeted the outskirts of the southern Lebanese village of Kfar Hamam on August 17, 2024, amid ongoing cross-border clashes between Israeli troops and Hezbollah. International mediators have been trying to reach a Gaza ceasefire between Israel and Hamas Palestinian militants, which diplomats say could help to avert a wider war in which Lebanon would be on the front line. Rabih DAHER / AFP

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