Britons Urged To Flee Lebanon As Hezbollah Pager Explosions Sparks Fears Of War
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-BRITS have been told to leave Lebanon immediately as tensions soar between Hezbollah and Israel – with the IDF launching airstrikes on the country’s south.
Foreign Secretary David Lammy warned the situation could “deteriorate rapidly” and urged Brits to flee the country while they still can.
It comes after 37 people were killed and over 3,000 injured in remote-controlled device explosions across Lebanon this week.
Israeli Mossad spies twice surprised terror group Hezbollah by hiding explosives inside their pagers and walkie-talkies and setting them off.
Hezbollah and Iran have vowed to seek revenge and the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) launched airstrikes above southern Lebanon on Thursday as tensions soar.
Mr Lammy tweeted: “My message to British nationals in Lebanon is leave while commercial options remain.
“Tensions are high and the situation could deteriorate rapidly.”
The Foreign Office has advised against all travel to Lebanon since October last year when the war in Gaza between Israel and Hamas exploded.
The IDF said their attacks are intended to “degrade Hezbollah’s terrorist capabilities and infrastructure”.
At least 70,000 Israelis have been evacuated from northern Israel amid almost-daily attacks from Hezbollah in Lebanon over the border.
Israel has vowed to return them to their homes as it marked a “new phase of war” and shifted hordes of troops north on Wednesday.
Iran’s Revolutionary Guard has threatened a “crushing response” against Israel for the hack attacks this week.
Lebanese security forces claim Israeli spooks planted explosives inside thousands of pagers used by Hezbollah, months before the blitz.
Top brass inside the militant group had ordered its fighters to swap phones for pagers in a failed move to keep Israel from tracking them.
Mossad reportedly intercepted the devices on the supply route and packed them with the explosive PETN.
After the initial wave of pager blasts on Tuesday, other devices including walkie-talkies, fingerprint scanners, home solar systems and radios also exploded in Lebanon on Wednesday.
Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah hit out against Israel in a speech, saying the “enemy” had crossed “all limits, rules and red lines” in a “massacre”.
He dubbed it a “declaration of war”.
The IDF said it hit some 100 Hezbollah launchers in its airstrikes – targeting barrels they said were “ready to fire projectiles toward Israeli territory”.
It vowed to continue to “operate against the threat of the Hezbollah terrorist organization in order to defend the State of Israel”.
The Sun-UK
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