Travel 警告 as strike kills two 国家のs in Lebanon

Australians in Lebanon are again 存在 勧めるd to come home まっただ中に 安全 関心s after two 国家のs were killed in an 空気/公表する strike.

Funerals were held 夜通し for an Australian-Lebanese man, his Lebanese wife and his brother after the trio were killed in the Middle Eastern country's south.

The Australian Department of Foreign 事件/事情/状勢s and 貿易(する) 確認するd the deaths of two Australian 国民s in the strike.

The 大使館 in Beirut was ready to 申し込む/申し出 領事の 援助 to the family, the department said.

The dead have been identified by Middle Eastern マスコミ as Australian-Lebanese 非軍事の Ibrahim Bazzi, his wife and Lebanese 国民 Shorouq Hammoud, and his brother Ali Bazzi.

"They were in their homes," a medic who 作品 with the Civil Defence in south Lebanon told The 国家の, an English-language news 出口 based in the 部隊d Arab 首長国s.

There were no 調印するs of fighting nearby before the strike and Ms Hammoud was 回復するd first from the 破片, he said.

"When they 設立する her she was alive but she died すぐに after," he told The 国家の.

Lebanon's 国家の News 機関 also 報告(する)/憶測d the deaths, 説 the home belonged to the Bazzi family.

The volatile 安全 状況/情勢 was why Australians were 存在 警告するd not to travel to Lebanon, 事実上の/代理 外務 大臣 示す Dreyfus said.

"There is daily 軍の activity in southern Lebanon, 含むing ロケット/急騰する and ミサイル 解雇する/砲火/射撃 同様に as 抽出するs," he told reporters in Melbourne on Thursday.

"For Australians in Lebanon, we 勧める you to leave while 商業の 選択s remain 利用できる."

M r Dreyfus 繰り返し言うd calls for 非軍事の lives to be 保護するd as 衝突 in Gaza spreads in the wider 地域.

"It is why we have been working with countries who have 影響(力) in the 地域 to 妨げる その上の escalation and it is why we have been advising Australians not to travel to Lebanon," he said.

Lebanese-based Hezbollah, 指定するd a テロリスト organisation by the Australian 政府, has 普及した support in the area.

It 宣言するd Ali Bazzi as one of the Shi'ite イスラム教徒 group's 闘士,戦闘機s, によれば Reuters.

Hezbollah, an 同盟(する) of Palestinian Islamist 派閥 Hamas, has been 交流ing 解雇する/砲火/射撃 with イスラエル across Lebanon's southern 国境 since the イスラエル-Hamas war in Gaza began on October 7.

The 政府 was still working to 設立する whether the man was a part of Hezbollah and is aware of (人命などを)奪う,主張するs, Mr Dreyfus said.

"We will continue to make 調査s about this particular person, with whom Hezbollah has (人命などを)奪う,主張するd links," he said.

"One of the 推論する/理由s why the Australian 政府 has 名簿(に載せる)/表(にあげる)d Hezbollah ... as a テロリスト organisation is because of the 可能性のある links to Australia and Australians."

Ms Hammoud was recently 認めるd an Australian ビザ. She and her husband, who have been married for three years, planned to travel soon to Sydney, Nine News 報告(する)/憶測d.

Ibrahim Bazzi is believed to have moved to Australia in 2020-21.

with Reuters

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