A South Korean military transport aircraft has evacuated 97 citizens and family members from Lebanon, the country’s foreign ministry said.
A KC-330 aircraft landed in Beirut on Friday morning and departed in the afternoon with the evacuees, who include Lebanese family members. The flight will arrive in the capital, Seoul, on Saturday afternoon.
South Korean diplomats stationed in Lebanon remained in the country, Yonhap news agency reported.
Saeed Atallah, a leader of Hamas’ armed wing, al-Qassam brigades, was killed with three family members in an Israeli strike on a Palestinian refugee camp in the northern Lebanese city of Tripoli, Hamas-affiliated media reported on Saturday.
Israel did not immediately comment on the strike.
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