Saudi Arabia and Bahrain have urged their citizens to leave Lebanon as soon as possible and to stay away from areas where armed conflicts have taken place. In a statement published late on Friday on X, formerly known as Twitter, the Saudi Arabian embassy in Lebanon advised its citizens not to travel to areas where armed conflicts were occurring.
The kingdom did not specify which parts of Lebanon its citizens should stay away from. According to Al Jazeera, the embassy emphasized “the importance of observing the Saudi travel ban to Lebanon.” Bahrain’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, meanwhile, urged all Bahraini citizens to heed its earlier warnings against traveling to Lebanon at all costs. According to a statement released by the ministry, the Ministry requested that residents leave Lebanese territory in order to ensure their safety.
Bahraini citizens in case of emergency, can contact the Embassy of the Kingdom of Bahrain in Damascus.
Kuwait also issued an advisory early on Saturday calling on Kuwaitis in Lebanon to stay vigilant and avoid “areas of security disturbances” but stopped short of asking them to leave the country, according to a statement by the Kuwaiti foreign ministry posted on X, as per Al Jazeera.
The United Kingdom on August 1 updated its travel advice for Lebanon, advising against “all but essential travel” to parts of Lebanon’s south near the Palestinian refugee camp of Ein el-Hilweh.
As per Al Jazeera, since July 29, at least 13 people have been killed and more than 60 injured in clashes between the mainstream faction Fatah and a hard-line group in the camp, the largest of 12 Palestinian camps established in Lebanon in 1948 after Israel was created.