The German Foreign Ministry has again called on German citizens in Lebanon to either leave the country or prepare for an emergency amid rising tensions between Israel on the one hand and Iran and its Lebanese counterpart support, Hezbollah, on the other hand, DPA reported.
A ministry spokesman said today that another letter has been sent to Germans in Lebanon asking them to leave Lebanon immediately while the world awaits Tehran’s response to the assassination of two key Israeli opponents, giving in the head of Hezbollah. The Germans left in the country “may have to fend for themselves for a long time in a crisis zone,” the message said.
“The embassy urged people to urgently stock up on food, water, medicine and money for several weeks,” the spokesman said. At the beginning of the week, there were still around 2,100 German citizens in Lebanon The German embassy in Lebanon said the German government may not follow through immediately by canceling passenger flights, temporarily closing airports or cutting other options for leaving the country. .The diplomatic mission also pointed out other obstacles even if such an operation were to take place.
“It is not possible to return home. Even in evacuation, you must make your way to the fixed starting point. Participation in evacuation is not free. There are still visa requirements, travel will only be possible with complete and valid documents,” the embassy said.
At the same time, in Germany itself, the authorities are very vigilant. “We are closely monitoring how a further escalation could affect the security situation in Germany,” German Interior Minister Nancy Feser told regional newspaper Rheinische Post. She said the threat that the tension in the Middle East would increase and she said that the situation was “extremely dangerous”. According to her, the German government and its international partners are working to reduce the situation.
“Since the terrorist attacks by Hamas on Israel on October 7, 2023 and the subsequent war in Gaza, there has been a significant increase in anti-Semitic crimes,” Feser said.
“Our security agencies are doing everything we can to break the spiral that goes from violence in the Middle East to even more heinous anti-Semitism here,” she said. Feser also noted that authorities taking decisive measures against Islamism in the country, recalling the recent ban on the Islamic Center in Hamburg and its branches across the country.She also mentioned banning the group Palestinian militant Hamas and the pro-Palestinian network Samidoun in Germany. Feser expressed his “heartfelt thanks” to the German federal states for their continued efforts to protect Jewish and Israeli institutions in Germany by using police forces. more.
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