Several Western countries, including the United States, the United Kingdom, and France, have urged their citizens to leave Lebanon immediately, while Canada has advised against traveling to Israel due to fears of the conflict escalating following the assassination of Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran on Wednesday.
Haniyeh’s assassination, which occurred just hours after the killing of Hezbollah’s military commander Fuad Shukr in Beirut, has prompted vows of retaliation from Iran and its allied groups in Lebanon, Yemen, Iraq, and Syria.
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken informed his G7 counterparts of a potential Iranian response that could occur as early as today.
Due to escalating tensions, major airlines such as KLM, Lufthansa, Emirates, Air France, Turkish Airlines, Singapore Airlines, and Swiss Airlines have suspended flights to and from Israel, Iran, and Lebanon, according to Al Jazeera.
Early Sunday, over 50 rockets were fired from southern Lebanon toward northern Israel in response to an Israeli attack on several areas in southern Lebanon during the night.
On the same day, the Israeli military bombed a school serving as a shelter in Gaza City, killing at least 30 people, mostly women and children. This was the third attack on a school in the past four days, according to the NYT.
