Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese urges citizens to leave Lebanon amid fears the war in Gaza could escalate into a region-wide conflict. The warning came after Lebanon's Iran-backed Hezbollah group said that senior military commander Fuad Shukr was killed in an Israeli strike on a south Beirut building, alongside the killing of Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran.
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00:00Well, I'm very concerned and that's why I issued a joint statement, again the third
00:05one that I've done with the Prime Minister of Canada and the Prime Minister of New Zealand
00:11just last Friday.
00:13We warned about the escalation, the potential that was there.
00:19Do not travel to Lebanon at the moment.
00:23We have a very clear statement that has been issued through the Department of Foreign Affairs
00:29and Trade and for those Australians who are overseas they should take the opportunity
00:36to come home.
00:37Australian citizens don't need visas, they get to come home.
00:41There's thousands of them in Lebanon right now.