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Foreign Minister Penny Wong has delivered a message urging Australians in Lebanon to leave now.Australia’s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade has joined the United States State Department in raising Lebanon’s travel advisory, calling on citizens not to visit the country.The announcement comes a day after an Israeli drone strike killed a top Hezbollah commander in a rare Beirut strike shortly followed by a strike in Iran that killed Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh.
The development comes as the UN Security Council was called for an emergency meeting on Wednesday to respond to the unravelling situation, as the UN’s top leader presses world nations to come together quickly to keep Mideast tensions from boiling over.Secretary-General António Guterres sees the strike in Tehran and another in the Lebanese capital of Beirut as “a dangerous escalation,” spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric said at a briefing.
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