Foreign Office warns over travelling to 18 countries including Egypt

The Foreign Office is warning British holidaymakers and tourists over flying out to a string of destinations.

The Foreign Office has issued a travel "advisory" for 18 nations - including Egypt - as it urges Brit holidaymakers to exercise caution. The Foreign Office is warning British holidaymakers and tourists over flying out to a string of destinations.

The advisory affects those in Egypt, Bahrain, Algeria, UAE, Tunisia, Syria, Jordan, Iraq, Israel, The Occupied Palestinian Territories, Qatar, Oman, Morocco, Libya, Iran, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, and Lebanon. The Foreign Office warns: "Ongoing hostilities between Israel and Lebanon could escalate quickly and pose risks for the wider region.

"Monitor this travel advice and other media as the situation is changing fast. Follow and contact FCDO travel on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. You can also get email notifications when this travel advice is updated. Read FCDO advice if you’re affected by a crisis abroad."

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Lebanon’s state news agency reported on Sunday that an Israeli airstrike on a house in the town of Ain, in the Bekaa valley, eastern Lebanon, killed 11 people earlier today. Israeli strikes have increasingly targeted Hezbollah’s strongholds in southern Beirut and the Bekaa valley, where Israel claims the group stores thousands of rockets.

More than 1,000 people have been killed in Lebanon and more than 6,000 wounded as a result of Israeli attacks in the past two weeks, the health ministry said, and about one million Lebanese people have been displaced by the strikes, including hundreds of thousands since Friday, Nasser Yassin, the minister coordinating the government’s crisis response, has told Reuters.

Joe Biden ordered the Pentagon to enhance America’s defence posture in the region. He said: “The United States fully supports Israel’s right to defend itself against Hezbollah, Hamas, the Houthis, and any other Iranian-supported terrorist groups.”

UN secretary general António Guterres said he is “gravely concerned by the dramatic escalation of the events in Beirut in the last 24 hours”. He went on to add: “This cycle of violence must stop now. All sides must step back from the brink.”