Israeli strike closes off road used to flee Lebanon, transport minister says

Nations worldwide have prepared contingency plans to evacuate citizens from Lebanon

Smoke rises from the site of an Israeli airstrike in Dahiyeh, Beirut, Lebanon. Picture: AP

An Israeli strike on Friday morning near Lebanon's Masnaa border crossing with Syria cut off a road used by hundreds of thousands of people to flee Israeli bombardments in recent days, Lebanon's transport minister Ali Hamieh has said.

Mr Hamieh said the strike hit inside Lebanese territory near the border crossing, creating a four-metre (12 feet) wide crater, per Reuters.