Riot police spray protesters with a water cannon during a demonstration in solidarity with the Palestinian people in Gaza, near the U.S. embassy in Aukar, a northern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, Wednesday, Oct. 18, 2023.
| CBC News LoadedThe federal government is warning Canadians to avoid all travel to Lebanon and telling those already in the country to leave now, as the crisis in Israel and Gaza worsens and concerns grow that the conflict could spill over the border.Riot police near the U.S. embassy in Beirut spray protesters with a water cannon during a pro-Palestinian demonstration on Wednesday. There are fears that Israel's conflict with Hamas could spill across the border to Lebanon.
Since the Israel-Hamas conflict broke out, Canadians trying to leave the region have had some government help. According to GAC, approximately 1,400 Canadian citizens and permanent residents, along with some other foreign nationals, have departed on 14 government-operated airlifts from Israel, with another due to depart Thursday.
"If you are in Lebanon, it is now time to leave while commercial flights are still available," Joly told reporters in Ottawa on Tuesday. The concern may lie in the fact that Beirut's Rafic Hariri International Airport was Israel's first major target when it launched a country-wide war against Hezbollah in July 2006 — a conflict that persisted for 34 days.Christy Mady teaches at a university near Beirut while her friend Ruby Dagher teaches Middle East politics back at home in Ottawa. She worries about her friend as well as her father and other family in Lebanon.
By the time "Operation Lion," as it was known, came to an end on Aug. 15, Canada had transported nearly 15,000 evacuees out of Lebanon on 34 maritime voyages, at a total cost offrom Beirut, on the first day of evacuations, that there were chaotic scenes at the port, with evacuees complaining that the Canadian embassy hadn't given them enough information.
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