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Ghana's Consul General to Lebanon, Mr Ali Samih Jaafar, has urged Ghanaians in Lebanon to take their personal security seriously.

This comes in the wake of the escalation of violence in the Gaza area.

In a statement, he said Ghanaians, especially in the South Litani Sector, are urged to either leave to safer places or avoid panic and unnecessary movement especially at night, until the security situation improves.

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Meanwhile, Ghanaians in Israel are not ready to return home. 

Some Ghanaians living in Israel say they are not ready to return home even as the country’s war with Palestine takes a full-blown turn.

Seth Cudjoe, a Ghanaian resident in Israel in an interview with Accra-based Joy FM, said seeking an exit will be his last option because he has a newborn who needs all the care and stability.

“I am not planning to come back to Ghana … I can’t also leave my wife and jump to Ghana and the Ghana community is not ready to leave to Ghana unless the worst confronts us,” he said.

According to him, the Ghanaian community in his area is not ready to leave until they have no other option.

Seth Cudjoe adds that he is in touch with Ghanaian officials and receives update regularly on what to do to avoid being caught in the crossfire.

Update on Israel-Palestine War

The Israeli military said dozens of its fighter jets struck more than 200 targets overnight in a neighbourhood of Gaza City.

On Saturday, Hamas fighters from the Gaza Strip rampaged through parts of southern Israel, in the deadliest Palestinian attack in Israel’s history.

Israel has called up an unprecedented 300,000 reservists, as Israeli airlines added flights to bring reservists back to the country.

The Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs said Israeli strikes had since Saturday destroyed more than 22,600 residential units and 10 health facilities and damaged 48 schools.

Two members of Hamas’s political office were killed in an air strike in Khan Younis, a Hamas official said. They were the first senior Hamas members killed since Israel began pounding the enclave.

Diplomacy

US President Joe Biden called the attacks by Hamas “an act of sheer evil” and added that at least 14 Americans were killed. Secretary of State Antony Blinken will arrive in Israel on Thursday, in a show of solidarity.

Egypt is moving to prevent a mass exodus south from the Gaza Strip, as Israeli bombardments halted crossings.

European Union foreign ministers met to try to resolve divisions over whether to continue aid payments to Palestinians.

European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said Israel was breaking international law by imposing a total blockade against the Gaza Strip in retaliation against the Hamas attack.

Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said Tehran was not involved in the Hamas attack, though he “kissed the hands” of those doing damage to Israel.

Russian President Vladimir Putin is blaming US policy failures for the Israel-Hamas war.