The United States organized a flight that carried about 100 American citizens and their relatives out of Lebanon on Wednesday, the State Department said.
“It’s been a priority for us to enhance the capacity of flights in and out of the region. So we’ve contracted with additional carriers to facilitate the transport of American citizens,” spokesman Matthew Miller told journalists.
“There was a flight that left a couple of hours ago from Beirut” to Istanbul that had “a little over 100 American citizens and their family members who departed on it,” Miller said.
The State Department has advised Americans to “depart Lebanon now while commercial options still remain available,” and warned those who decide to stay to “be prepared to shelter in place should the situation deteriorate further.”
