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In the case of the United States, the U.S. Embassy in Beirut announced on 27 September 2024 that it was "not evacuating U.S. citizens at this time." [267] [268] In response, U.S. Representative Rashida Tlaib stated the State Department was "leaving Americans behind and failing to protect their own citizens". [269]
Type 56 assault rifle. Deaths. 0. Injured. 2 (including the perpetrator) On 5 June 2024, at 8:34 am, a shooting took place at the U.S. Embassy in Beirut, Lebanon. An armed assailant opened fire on the embassy located in the Awkar area in Beirut, lightly injuring a security guard. The attacker was wounded and detained by the Lebanese Armed Forces.
Since July, the U.S. has had a level 4 "do not travel" advisory for Lebanon encouraging citizens to get out. On Sept. 27, the State Department said it would not be evacuating Americans, prompting ...
Al Jazeera. 18 September 2024. Archived from the original on 18 September 2024. Retrieved 18 September 2024. On Tuesday, explosions in pagers used by Lebanon's Hezbollah group killed 12 people and wounded nearly 3,000, about 200 of them critically. ^ "At least 38 killed in Israeli strike on suburb in Lebanon's Beirut".
The U.S. Embassy in Beirut is encouraging Americans to leave the country as soon as possible after last week’s wave of pager attacks killed dozens and wounded thousands, raising international ...
On Tuesday, he received a text from the U.S. Embassy saying it was planning to begin evacuating citizens. Then, in the early hours of Thursday morning, he received a call from the State Department ...
Operation Fluid Drive was a non-combatant evacuation operation led by the United States to evacuate American citizens and other foreign nationals from Beirut, Lebanon, during the Lebanese Civil War. [ 1 ] On 20 June 1976, USS Spiegel Grove transported 110 Americans and 157 nationals of other countries from Lebanon to Piraeus, Greece. [ 2 ]
An unknown gunman opened fire outside the U.S. Embassy in Lebanon late Wednesday night. Embassy spokesperson Jake Nelson said in a statement that “small arms fire was reported in the vicinity of ...