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Beijing Calls for Immediate Evacuation of Citizens from Lebanon

By The Media Line Staff

Beijing’s embassy in Lebanon released a statement on Thursday urging Chinese nationals to leave the country immediately after a targeted Israeli strike killed a senior commander of an armed Palestinian group.

Citing “security circumstances” that are “severe and complex,” the Chinese embassy in Beirut emphasized the danger posed by the escalating violence along the Israeli-Lebanese border, advising Chinese nationals to “take the opportunity while commercial flights are still running to return to China or leave the country as soon as possible.”

“The current level of risk to travel in Lebanon’s South and Nabatieh Governorates is red (extremely high risk), and other areas are orange (high risk).”

China is the latest of several countries, including the United States, France, South Korea, Saudi Arabia, Japan, Turkey, and Jordan, to push citizens to leave Lebanon amid global anxiety that the war in Gaza will spill over into a larger regional conflict.

On Wednesday, the Israeli air force confirmed that it had carried out a strike on Khalil al-Maqdah in the southern Lebanese city of Sidon, the first targeted killing against a senior member of Fatah in the months of the war in Gaza.

Al-Maqdah’s brother, Mounir al-Maqdah, allegedly heads the Lebanese branch of the Palestinian political movement’s armed wing, the Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades, and Israel has accused both of directing terror attacks against Israel.

Led by Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, Fatah is Hamas’ main political rival and the dominant faction within the occupied West Bank, where it maintains partial administrative control.

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