Another five buses carrying 250 Jordanians who fled Lebanon to escape
Israeli bombardments arrivedat the Jordanian-Syrian Jaber border crossing
yesterday, Jordan's official Petra news agency reported.
The buses were being operated by the Jordanian Foreign Ministryin
coordination with the Jordanian embassies in Beirut and Damascus, said the
report.
Meanwhile, the Jordanian Foreign Ministry announced that six more buses were
ready at the Jordanian embassy in Beirut to carry Jordanian nationals back home
via Syria.
The ministry has so far transport 1,400 of the estimated 2,700 Jordanians
residing in Lebanon back to Jordan by bus. The mass exodus of Jordanians started
last Friday. Thousands of foreign nationals have been scrambling to flee Lebanon
since Israel launched a massive assault in Lebanon following the capture of two
Israeli soldiers by the Lebanese Shiite group Hezbollah on July 12.
