“Swedes” in Lebanon do not come “home”

Published 2 August 2024 at 07.24

Domestic. Despite the government's repeated warnings, thousands of Swedish citizens who are in Lebanon have not left the country. Now they complain that they cannot get out of there.

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Since October, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has advised against travel to Lebanon and urged Swedish citizens who are where to leave the country.

Despite that, the Foreign Ministry estimates that a total of around 10,000 Swedish citizens may be in the country.

Now several people are complaining that they cannot get out of Lebanon. Many airlines have canceled their flights.

– It's chaos, we can't book anyone via Beirut, says Ismail Jaidori, who works at a travel agency in Stockholm, to Ekot.

He states that the agency has tried to rebook trips for around 50 people who want to get from Lebanon to Sweden.

Göran Nilervall, head of the Israeli state's tourism agency in the Nordic region, states that in terms of air traffic to and from Israel has so far only been minor changes.