(17 Oct 2024)
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Beirut, Lebanon – 17 October 2024
1. Entrance to Norwegian embassy
2. Close of sign
3. Entrance to Norwegian embassy, shutter half down
4. Various of security guard closing shutter to embassy
5. Various of building exterior housing Al Jazeera offices and Norwegian embassy
6. Various of journalists and security guards outside the building
7. Street by the building cordoned off and empty
STORYLINE:
A building in central Beirut that houses offices of the Al Jazeera news network and the Norwegian Embassy was evacuated after a warning on Thursday.
Mazen Ibrahim, Al Jazeera’s Lebanon bureau chief, said the building’s administration received three calls telling everyone to leave the building, which he said houses the embassies of Norway and Azerbaijan, as well as dozens of offices. He said it was unclear who called in the warning.
Norwegian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Ragnhild Simenstad said the building was evacuated after a “bomb threat,” without elaborating.
Israel has ordered the evacuation of several buildings, as well as entire cities, towns and villages, as it strikes what it says are targets linked to the Hezbollah militant group.
There have also been several instances of evacuation warning calls and text messages that turned out to be bogus, which Lebanese security agencies say they are investigating.
Israel has struck central Beirut on two occasions in its latest war against Hezbollah, and both came without warnings.
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