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No one wishes to see any more factors for increased advisories in the region.
Jason Clampet
The U.S. State Department on Tuesday raised its travel alert for Lebanon to “do not travel,” mentioning the security scenario related to rocket, missile, and artillery exchanges in between Israel and Hezbollah.
The State Department authorized the voluntary, momentary departure of family members of U.S. government workers and some non-emergency workers from the U.S. Embassy in Beirut due to the fact that of the unforeseeable security scenario in Lebanon.
The advisory comes as a Gaza health ministry spokesperson said hundreds were eliminated in a blast at a Gaza City medical facility, firing up demonstrations in the West Bank and around the Middle East. Israeli and Palestinian officials blamed on each other for the bombing.
Before Tuesday’s blast, health authorities in Gaza stated a minimum of 3,000 people had died in Israel’s 11-day bombardment that started after a Hamas performed a rampage on Oct. 7 on southern Israeli neighborhoods in which 1,300 individuals were killed and around 200 were taken into Gaza as hostages.
Gaza, a 45 km-long (25-mile) enclave home to 2.3 million individuals, has been ruled since 2006 by Hamas, an Islamist group that is a U.S.-designated foreign terrorist organization.
(Reporting by Eric Beech and Dan Whitcomb; Modifying by Christian Schmollinger)
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