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China's Embassy in Lebanon Warned Chinese Citizens Not to Travel to Country

A Lebanese flag flutters, amid ongoing cross-border hostilities between Hezbollah and Israeli forces, in Tyre, Lebanon September 26, 2024. REUTERS/Amr Abdallah Dalsh
A Lebanese flag flutters, amid ongoing cross-border hostilities between Hezbollah and Israeli forces, in Tyre, Lebanon September 26, 2024. REUTERS/Amr Abdallah Dalsh
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China's Embassy in Lebanon Warned Chinese Citizens Not to Travel to Country

A Lebanese flag flutters, amid ongoing cross-border hostilities between Hezbollah and Israeli forces, in Tyre, Lebanon September 26, 2024. REUTERS/Amr Abdallah Dalsh
A Lebanese flag flutters, amid ongoing cross-border hostilities between Hezbollah and Israeli forces, in Tyre, Lebanon September 26, 2024. REUTERS/Amr Abdallah Dalsh

The Chinese embassy in Lebanon warned Chinese citizens not to travel to the country, a spokesperson for the Chinese foreign ministry said on Thursday.
The embassy activated an emergency response plan, issued multiple security alerts and told citizens to take commercial flights to return to China, the spokesperson said at a regular press briefing.
Israel widened its airstrikes in Lebanon as tensions escalate in the Middle East.

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Israeli Strike in Syria Kills 5 Soldiers

People fleeing from Lebanon arrive on the Syrian side of the border with Lebanon in Jdeidat Yabus in southwestern Syria on September 25, 2024. (Photo by LOUAI BESHARA / AFP)
People fleeing from Lebanon arrive on the Syrian side of the border with Lebanon in Jdeidat Yabus in southwestern Syria on September 25, 2024. (Photo by LOUAI BESHARA / AFP)
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Israeli Strike in Syria Kills 5 Soldiers

People fleeing from Lebanon arrive on the Syrian side of the border with Lebanon in Jdeidat Yabus in southwestern Syria on September 25, 2024. (Photo by LOUAI BESHARA / AFP)
People fleeing from Lebanon arrive on the Syrian side of the border with Lebanon in Jdeidat Yabus in southwestern Syria on September 25, 2024. (Photo by LOUAI BESHARA / AFP)

An overnight Israeli airstrike on a military site in the area of Kfar Yabous in Syria near the border with Lebanon killed five Syrian army soldiers and injured another, Syrian state news agency SANA reported Friday, citing an unnamed military official.

Israel's military did not immediately acknowledge the strike. Israel regularly targets military sites in Syria and facilities linked to Iran and the Lebanon’s Hezbollah but rarely acknowledges them.

Those strikes have become more frequent as Hezbollah has exchanged fire with Israeli forces for the past 11 months against the backdrop of Israel’s war against Hamas in the Gaza Strip.

Tens of thousands of Lebanese and Syrians have fled across the border from Lebanon into Syria since the beginning of the week amid intense Israeli bombardment that Israel says is targeting Hezbollah fighters and weapons. The strikes have killed an estimated 700 people to date, including at least 150 women and children.