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Middle East crisis prompts FCDO winter sun alerts and EU airspace warning

Destinations
James Chapple
30 September 2024

The escalating conflict in the Middle East has prompted the Foreign Office to issue new travel advice for a number of popular winter sun destinations across the region and in neighbouring North Africa, while the EU has advised airlines against operating in Israeli and Lebanese airspace.

New warnings have been issued by authorities in the UK and EU (Credit: iStock / abzee)

New advice has been published for Egypt, Tunisia and Morocco, as well as the United Arab Emirates, Jordan, Qatar, Oman and Saudi Arabia, after Israel stretched its offensive further into Lebanon at the weekend and also struck targets in Yemen.


British nationals were last week advised to leave Lebanon immediately, with the FCDO already advising against all travel to Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories and for anyone there to leave.