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US embassy extends do-not-travel advisory in Israel to 30 miles from Lebanese, Syrian borders

The U.S. government had previously advised against traveling with 2.5 miles of the Israeli borders with the two countries.

U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem
The U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem, March 2019. Photo by Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90.

The U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem announced that it is extending the zone in which Americans should not travel in Israel from 2.5 miles from the Syrian and Lebanese borders to 31.1 miles (50 kilometers), according to a Nov. 25 post on the embassy site.

The embassy “strongly recommends” that Americans avoid traveling near the two borders due to “ongoing armed conflict between Hezbollah and Israel, cross-border rocket, missile and UAV strikes,” or drones, which it says “have increased and continue to impact this area daily and have resulted in civilian injuries and deaths.”

The embassy continues to warn against travel in Israel, as well as Judea and Samaria, and advises not to travel to Gaza.

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