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Australia is working to get its citizens out of Lebanon as Israel launches a ground invasion. Those in Lebanon are being assisted by the Department of Foreign Affairs to secure commercial airline tickets as the risk of the international airport shutting heightens. It follows months of repeated warnings Australians in Lebanon needed to leave as the security situation deteriorated and any repatriation effort in a crisis would be severely strained and unable to evacuate everyone.
It comes as the Israel Defence Force claims it dismantled a surface-to-air missile launcher storage facility, that Hezbollah had positioned approximately 1.5 km from Beirut’s international airport, in a strike. Treasurer Jim Chalmers urged restraint, saying Australia was “gravely concerned for the human cost of an escalation of this conflict”. “Further hostilities put the lives of tens of thousands of civilians at risk,” he told reporters in Canberra.
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