Smoke seeps out from building rubble at the site of an overnight Israeli airstrike on the Laylaki neighbourhood in Beirut's southern suburbs on October 1, 2024.AFP via Getty Images

‘Go while you still can’: EU countries urge citizens to flee Lebanon – POLITICO

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European countries are asking their citizens to leave Lebanon as Israel began its ground offensive against Hezbollah on Tuesday.

“Go while you still can,” Dutch Ambassador to Lebanon Frank Mollen said Tuesday morning, but adding, for now, the Netherlands will not organize an evacuation flight.

“That’s really a last resort, you only do that if you really can’t do anything else,” he told Dutch media NOS.