Lebanon is bracing for an Israeli military response to a suspected Hezbollah rocket strike that killed 12 Druze children and young people on a football field in the Golan Heights on Saturday.
Israel has said it would retaliate and civilians are bracing for what officials said could be days of fighting.
The United States, Germany, Britain and France are among the governments issuing travel warnings to their citizens, calling on them to leave Lebanon immediately or avoid travel there as the risk of conflict widens.
Rena Bitter, assistant secretary for consular affairs at the U.S. Embassy in Beirut, told Americans in Lebanon to “create a crisis plan of action and leave before the crisis begins,” in a video on X, formerly Twitter.
“We recommend U.S. citizens develop a crisis plan of action and leave before a crisis begins.
