The United Kingdom's Foreign Office revealed on Monday that it temporarily withdrew some staff and their family members from the British embassy in Lebanon over security concerns.
"The embassy continues with essential work, including services to British nationals," the office said in a notice. "There are ongoing mortar and artillery exchanges and airstrikes in South Lebanon, on the boundary with Israel," the Foreign Office noted, urging people to leave Lebanon "while commercial options remain."
Previously, Britain advised its nationals against traveling to Lebanon as tensions in the region continued to grow amid the Israel-Hamas war.
