Saudi Arabia on Friday (August 4) urged its citizens to leave Lebanon and avoid approaching areas where there have armed clashes. In a statement, the Saudi embassy in Lebanon stressed “the importance of adhering to the Saudi travel ban to Lebanon.
” However, the kingdom did not specify which areas in Lebanon it was advising its citizens to avoid.
Clashes have rocked Lebanon in the Palestinian camp of Ain el-Hilweh since July 29.
At least 13 people, most of them militants have killed in the fighting between rival factions.
According to the United Nations agency for refugees from Palestine, Ain el-Hilweh is the largest of 12 Palestinian camps in Lebanon, hosting around 80,000 of up to 250,000 Palestinian refugees countrywide
Saudi Arabia on Friday (August 4) urged its citizens to leave Lebanon and avoid approaching areas where there have armed clashes.
In a statement, the Saudi embassy in Lebanon stressed “the importance of adhering to the Saudi travel ban to Lebanon.” However, the kingdom did not specify which areas in Lebanon it was advising its citizens to avoid.
Clashes have rocked Lebanon in the Palestinian camp of Ain el-Hilweh since July 29.
At least 13 people, most of them militants have killed in the fighting between rival factions. According to the United Nations agency for refugees from Palestine, Ain el-Hilweh is the largest of 12 Palestinian camps in Lebanon, hosting around 80,000 of up to 250,000 Palestinian refugees countrywide
On Tuesday, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah- the head of Hezbollah urged a halt to the clashes, and said.
“This fighting must not continue because its repercussions are bad – for the camp’s residents, for the dear Palestinian people… for the south, for all of Lebanon.”